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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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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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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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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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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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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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