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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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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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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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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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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