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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
Composer
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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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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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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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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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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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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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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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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