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John Cage

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When we separate music from life we get art.


— John Cage


#get #life #music #separate

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.


— John Cage


#daily #daily life #highest #involved #life

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.


— John Cage


#enables #fly #homes #our #us

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.


— John Cage


#i #i am #nothing #poetry #say

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.


— John Cage


#beautiful #discover #first #i #i think

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.


— John Cage


#nothing #possess #realize #soon

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.


— John Cage


#boring #discovers #eight #eventually #four

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.


— John Cage


#happens #ideas #one thing #thing

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.


— John Cage


#cannot #empty #empty space #fact #hear

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.


— John Cage


#her #highest #manner #nature #operation






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Did you know about John Cage?

1960s: Fame
Cage was affiliated with Wesleyan University and collaborated with members of its Music Department from the 1950s until his death in 1992. He supported himself financially by taking up a job washing walls at a Brooklyn YWCA. In 1933 he sent some of his compositions to Henry Cowell; the reply was a "rather vague letter" in which Cowell suggested that Cage study with Arnold Schoenberg—Cage's musical ideas at the time included composition based on a 25-tone row somewhat similar to Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.

John Milton Cage Jr. Cage was also a pioneer of the prepared piano (a piano with its sound altered by objects placed between or on its strings or hammers) for which he wrote numerous dance-related works and a few concert pieces.

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