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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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Music Theorist
Musician
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Painter
Philosopher
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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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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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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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.
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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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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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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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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.
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