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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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