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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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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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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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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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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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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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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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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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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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We only hear what we listen for.
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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.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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