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Out of the work comes the work.

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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Jr.
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Jr. Cage
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Work
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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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Each moment presents what happens.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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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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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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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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