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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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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.
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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 want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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 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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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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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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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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