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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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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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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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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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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