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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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