| There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. |
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- John Cage |
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| If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. |
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- John Cage |
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| If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. |
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- John Cage |
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| I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. |
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- John Cage |
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| We need not destroy the past. It is gone. |
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- John Cage |
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