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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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 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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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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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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