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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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More quotes by John Cage
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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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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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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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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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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 grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
John Cage
Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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