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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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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 are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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