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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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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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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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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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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.
John Cage
Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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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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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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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
John Cage
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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