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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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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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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