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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
John Milton Cage Jr.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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