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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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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California
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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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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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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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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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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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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In the dark, all cats are black.
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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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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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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