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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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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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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 responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
John Cage
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
John Cage
We only hear what we listen for.
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
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
Each moment presents what happens.
John Cage
All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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