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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
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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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.
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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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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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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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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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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