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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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John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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 responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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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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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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