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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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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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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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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.
John Cage
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
John Cage
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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