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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.
John Milton Cage
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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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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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All great art is a form of complaint
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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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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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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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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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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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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Each moment presents what happens.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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