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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
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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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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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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