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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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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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We only hear what we listen for.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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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.
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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