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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
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
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
John Cage
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
We only hear what we listen for.
John Cage
In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
John Cage
If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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
Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
John Cage
The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
John Cage
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
John Cage
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.
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
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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
There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
John Cage
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
John Cage
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
John Cage
Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
John Cage
