Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

John Cage
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Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
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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 … ▶
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ✨ John Cage, Daniel Charles (1981). For the birds, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet. ✨ John Cage.
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. ✨ Lecture on Nothing (1961)
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, … ▶

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