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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
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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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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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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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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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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