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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.
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 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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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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.
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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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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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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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Out of the work comes the work.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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