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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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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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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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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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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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