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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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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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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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