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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.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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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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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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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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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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Each moment presents what happens.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
I don't need sound to talk to me.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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