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John Cage

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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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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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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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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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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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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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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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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.
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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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