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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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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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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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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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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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All great art is a form of complaint
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Out of the work comes the work.
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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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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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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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