John Cage Quotes
I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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In 2010, the Spanish constitutional court annulled a large part of the Catalan statute of autonomy negotiated between Catalonia and the previous prime minister, Jose Luis Zapatero. This demolished one of the main agreements achieved during the Spanish transition to democracy - Catalonia's recovery of self-governance.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.
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I get my inspiration for my songs and the lyrics from experiences in my life, but I'm also very inspired by the Beatles and Cyndi Lauper, as I really like their music.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.
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I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.
