Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"To be alive is to be in constant transformation."John Cage
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."James Blake
"Get busy living or get busy dying."James Blake
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."James Blake
"May you live every day of your life."James Blake
"To live is to choose, but to choose well is to live."James Blake
"Do not fear death. Fear not having lived."James Blake
"Sound is everywhere, and learning to hear it fully is learning to be fully alive."Pauline Oliveros
"The voice is our most intimate instrument; learning to use it fully is learning to live fully."Pauline Oliveros
"A life well-lived is a life that remains open to surprise and new learning."Pauline Oliveros
"I think life is about accumulating experiences, not possessions."Laurie Anderson
"I think we're all telling ourselves stories about who we areāthe trick is to choose good stories."Laurie Anderson
"The journey from silence to sound mirrors life itself"Jon Hopkins
"Time spent creating is time spent truly living"Jon Hopkins
"To be misunderstood is to be alive."Arca
"We are all works in progress, and that's the only acceptable state."Arca
"To be alive is to be broken; to be alive is to heal."Arca
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."Yoko Ono
"Life is a canvas, and you are the artist."Yoko Ono
"To live fully is to make sense of the noise around us."Ryoji Ikeda
"Life is the art of distinguishing signal from noise."Ryoji Ikeda
"I would like my life to be a smooth succession of interesting and varied events, with no time out."John Cage
"I would like to imagine a state of affairs where the attention paid to the problems that music presents would be paid to the problems of housewives."John Cage
"We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life."John Cage
"Every person is a unique expression of the universe."John Cage
"The unexpected is what makes life interesting."John Cage
"To make silence audible is one of my life's purposes."John Cage
"To live fully is to be open to all experience."John Cage
"We're all searching for something we can't articulate"James Blake
"We're all works in progress, forever unfinished"James Blake