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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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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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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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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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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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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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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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 the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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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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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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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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