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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
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Philosopher
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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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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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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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