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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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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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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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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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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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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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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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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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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 responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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