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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
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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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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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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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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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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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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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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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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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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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 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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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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