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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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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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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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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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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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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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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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