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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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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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Out of the work comes the work.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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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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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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