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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
John Cage
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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