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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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.
John Cage
Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
John Cage
Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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
Each moment presents what happens.
John Cage
There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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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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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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.
John Cage
It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
John Cage
