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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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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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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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We only hear what we listen for.
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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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