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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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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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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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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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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