John Cage Quotes
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I want to be a major force.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.
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'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
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When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.
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It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
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Coming from a family of preachers, the idea of giving back has been part of my life as long as I can remember.
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A little showbiz never hurt anyone.
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Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
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Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.
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I must admit that I don't really understand social networking models that well, and I haven't tried to because I have just not been enthused about this whole thing.
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It is very natural for me to say thank you to the goods that support us.
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Iwas a sculptor.Butthat'sreallydrawinga drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
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I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
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All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
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Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man;He’s ben on all sides thet give places or pelf;But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,-He’s ben true to one party, an’ thet is himself.
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the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
