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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

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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
Writer
LA
California
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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