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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
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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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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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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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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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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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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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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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All great art is a form of complaint
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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