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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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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John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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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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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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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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