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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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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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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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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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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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