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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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
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University Teacher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
Jr.
John Milton
Jr. Cage
J. C.
Lullaby
Useless
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Lullabies
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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...we make our lives by what we love.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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