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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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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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 the dark, all cats are black.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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