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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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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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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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