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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

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Everybody is entertained to death.

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Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.

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Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

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The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re apparently doing nothing, …

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Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

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All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

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Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of lit…

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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

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