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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
Composer
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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