John Cage Quotes
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
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I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.
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To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.
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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
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If I prove a bad president, I will also likely to prove the last president.
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
