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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
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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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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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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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