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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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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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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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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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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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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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