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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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