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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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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Music Theorist
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Painter
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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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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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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 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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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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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.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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