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I don't need sound to talk to me.

John Cage

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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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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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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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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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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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