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“Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?” quote by John Cage — Download Open image

“Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?”

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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that…

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It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room…

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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art.…

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“...the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access…

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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

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To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap.

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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake…

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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

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People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

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If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.

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Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,…

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We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even…

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I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.

Bruce Springsteen

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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

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LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they…

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Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that's what stuck to me; it's like, you really are a…

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I mean, you take a look at this, it's one way. [Mexicans] get the jobs, they get the factories, they get the cash, and…

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What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that…

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There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories…

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So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot…

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We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc,…

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