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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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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 responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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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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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.
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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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