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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
Composer
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Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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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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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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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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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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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