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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
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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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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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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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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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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