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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
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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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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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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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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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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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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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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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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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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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Each moment presents what happens.
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