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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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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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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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