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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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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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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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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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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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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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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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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