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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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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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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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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.
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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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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Out of the work comes the work.
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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.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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