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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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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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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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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 world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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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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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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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