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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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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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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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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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