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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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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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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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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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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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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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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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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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We only hear what we listen for.
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