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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.
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More quotes by John Cage
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
John Cage
When we separate music from life we get is art.
John Cage
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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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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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
John Cage
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.
John Cage
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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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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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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.
John Cage
Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
John Cage
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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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
John Cage
Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
John Cage
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
