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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Let somebody insult you and see that that you do not answer back. Just see it, not to get into temper. Try that your ego doesn't react. That can be achieved very easily if you try in the mirror, look at yourself and laugh at yourself, make fun of yourself.
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I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.
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The first thing I remember about the world - and I pray that it may be the last - is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
