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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
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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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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 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 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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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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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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Each moment presents what happens.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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