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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
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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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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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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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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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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