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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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Painter
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LA
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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We only hear what we listen for.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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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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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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