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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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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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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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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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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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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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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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