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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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Each moment presents what happens.
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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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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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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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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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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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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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