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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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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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 material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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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.
John Cage
A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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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.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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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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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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 world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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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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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
John Cage
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
John Cage
