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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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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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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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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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...we make our lives by what we love.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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We only hear what we listen for.
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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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