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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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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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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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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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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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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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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