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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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John Milton Cage Jr.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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