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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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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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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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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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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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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 world is teeming anything can happen.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
John Cage
