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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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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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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 are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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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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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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