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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

John Cage

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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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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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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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