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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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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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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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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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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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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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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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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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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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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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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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