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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
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Music Theorist
Musician
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Philosopher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
John Cage
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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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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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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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
John Cage
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
John Cage
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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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