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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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Musician
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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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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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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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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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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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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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 are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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