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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.
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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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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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Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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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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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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...we make our lives by what we love.
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