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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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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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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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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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