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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
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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More quotes by 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
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
The world is teeming anything can happen.
John Cage
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
John Cage
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
John Cage
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
John Cage
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
John Cage
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
John Cage
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.
John Cage
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
John Cage
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
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.
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
If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
John Cage
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
John Cage
