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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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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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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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Each moment presents what happens.
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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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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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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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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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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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