The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak t…

John Cage
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The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread. ✨ A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings.
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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, Cambrid … ▶
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent. ✨ John Cage, James Joyce (1982). Roaratorio: ein irischer Circus über Finnegans wake, Athenaum
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. ✨ Lecture on Nothing (1961)
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I don't need sound to talk to me. ✨ Interview with Miroslav Sebestik, 1991.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread. ✨ A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings.

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