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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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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 the dark, all cats are black.
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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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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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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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