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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
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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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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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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...we make our lives by what we love.
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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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