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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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