A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authenti…

John Cage
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A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is. ✨ Pierre Boulez, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, John Cage, Robert Samuels (1995). The Boulez-Cage Correspondence, p.107, Cambridge University Press
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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. ✨ John Cage (2010). Silence: Lectures and Writings, p.28, Wesleyan Uni … ▶
All great art is a form of complaint
Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet. ✨ John Cage.
When we separate music from life we get is art. ✨ Silence: Lectures and Writings.

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