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Each moment presents what happens.
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
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Painter
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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John Milton
Jr. Cage
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More quotes by John Cage
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
John Cage
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
I don't need sound to talk to me.
John Cage
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
In the dark, all cats are black.
John Cage
If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
John Cage
The world is teeming anything can happen.
John Cage
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
...we make our lives by what we love.
John Cage
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
John Cage
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
John Cage
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
