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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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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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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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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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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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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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All great art is a form of complaint
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Each moment presents what happens.
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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.
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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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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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