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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
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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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's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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...we make our lives by what we love.
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It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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