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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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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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All great art is a form of complaint
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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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