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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
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LA
California
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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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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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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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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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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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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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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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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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