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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
Composer
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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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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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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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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