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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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