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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
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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All great art is a form of complaint
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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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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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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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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