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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
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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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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All great art is a form of complaint
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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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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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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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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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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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