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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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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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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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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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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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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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Out of the work comes the work.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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