John Cage Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Cage
John Cage Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accordance with nature, in her manner of operation.
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.
All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
I want my writing to be as clear as water I can see through so that what I experienced is told without my being in any way in the way.
The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.
When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.
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.
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent
to a gang bent on destruction.
to a gang bent on destruction.
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education.
Now we have come to the end of the part about structure. However, it occurs to me to say more about structure.
The reason we life black people isn't because they're black. We like them because they're not as grey as we are.
I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.
Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.
I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.
In our forests
part divine
and makes her heart palpitate
wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!
part divine
and makes her heart palpitate
wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound!
My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.