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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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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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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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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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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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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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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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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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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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