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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
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Music Theorist
Musician
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Painter
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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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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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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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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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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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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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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