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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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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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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?
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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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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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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.
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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