If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. ✨ John Cage, Richard…

John Cage
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. ✨ John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz (1993). John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces, Amadeus 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 … ▶
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. ✨ John Cage (2010). Silenc … ▶
To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later. ✨ John Cage (2010). Silence: Lectures and Writings, p.112, Wesleyan University Press
I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love. ✨ John Cage (2011). Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition, Wesleyan University … ▶

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. ✨ John Cage, Richard Kostelanetz (1993). John Cage, writer: previously uncollected pieces, Amadeus Press

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