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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.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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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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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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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 act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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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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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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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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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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