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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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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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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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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All great art is a form of complaint
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
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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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
John Cage
Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
John Cage
In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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