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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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John Milton Cage Jr.
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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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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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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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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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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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