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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
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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We only hear what we listen for.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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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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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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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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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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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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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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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
