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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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Music Theorist
Musician
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Philosopher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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.
John Cage
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
Out of the work comes the work.
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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
John Cage
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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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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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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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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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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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.
John Cage
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
John Cage
I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
John Cage
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
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