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Act Quotes by John Cage
- What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been…
- The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
- Good music can act as a guide to good living.
- What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the…
- Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up…
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- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
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- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold