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Music is a means of rapid transportation.

John Cage

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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
Jr.
John Milton
Jr. Cage
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Rapid
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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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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 need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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