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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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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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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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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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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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Each moment presents what happens.
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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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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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