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...we make our lives by what we love.
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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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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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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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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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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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