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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 only hear what we listen for.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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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.
John Cage
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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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 Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
