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I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing. ✨ John Cage (2010). Silence: Lectures and Writings, p.6, Wesleyan University Press
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Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case. ✨ John Cage (1961). Silence: Lectures and Writings, p.174, Wesleyan University Press
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.
My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions. ✨ John Cage (1997). I–VI: MethodStructureIntentionDisciplineNotationIndeterminacyInterpenetrationImi … ▶
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.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing. ✨ John Cage (2010). Silence: Lectures and Writings, p.6, Wesleyan University Press

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