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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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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?
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Out of the work comes the work.
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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