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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process. — John Cage

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. — John Cage

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

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accordance with nature, in her manner of operation. — John Cage

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent. — John Cage

If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun. — John Cage

We need not destroy the past. It is gone. — John Cage

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again. — John Cage

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing. — John Cage

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing. — John Cage

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. — John Cage

The world is teeming; anything can happen. — John Cage

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. — John Cage

The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage. — David Mitchell

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound. — John Cage

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan

Beware of losing what isn't in your head. — John Cage

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is. — John Cage

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this. — John Cage

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. — John Cage

One need not fear for the future of music. — John Cage

Each moment presents what happens. — John Cage

Music is a means of rapid transportation. — John Cage

Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow. — John Cage

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. — John Cage

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. — John Cage

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy. — John Cage

There is nothing we need to do that isn't dangerous. — John Cage

We, the garden of technology. We, undecidable. — John Cage

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. — John Cage

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. — John Cage

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion ... and a man no longer believes he is a man. — John Eldredge

Open wide the mind's cage-door,
She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar. — John Keats

All great art is a form of complaint — John Cage

The workspace fell somewhere between a gerbil cage and a prison cell on the space-and-comfort scale. — John A. Heldt

There are no secrets.It's just we thought that they said dead. When they said bread. — John Cage

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat. — John Cage

I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it. — John Cage

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. — John Cage

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings. — Elton John

We only hear what we listen for. — John Cage

As McLuhan says, everything happens at once. — John Cage

Hollywood has always been a cage ... a cage to catch our dreams. — John Huston

Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences. — John Cage

Be an advocate for the people and causes important to you, using the most powerful tool only you have - your personal stories. — John Capecci And Timothy Cage

Corporate Responsibility; Environmental Preservation; Consumer Protection; Sex & Race Discrimination (they must mean Sex and Race Liberation). — John Cage

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation. — John Cage

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living. — John Cage

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later. — John Cage

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think. — John Cage

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. — John Cage

He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. — John Green

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want — John Cage

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. — John Cage

No one can have an idea once he starts really listening. — John Cage

In our forests
part divine
and makes her heart palpitate
wild and tame are one. What a delicious Sound! — John Cage

My work became an exploration of non-intention. — John Cage

I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love. — John Cage

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not. — John Cage

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. — John Cage

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. — John Cage

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. — John Cage

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd. — John Cage

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire? — John Cage

And I wake, in the cage of my bones,
on the same cold ground. — John Burnside

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. — John Cage

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

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. — John Cage

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. — John Cage

Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case. — John Cage

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. — John Cage

Out of the work comes the work. — John Cage

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not. — John Cage

Now we have come to the end of the part about structure. However, it occurs to me to say more about structure. — John Cage

Farting, don't think, just fart. — John Cage

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. — John Cage

The reason we life black people isn't because they're black. We like them because they're not as grey as we are. — John Cage

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is. — John Cage

Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go. — John Cage

Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music. — John Cage

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection. — John Cage

My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet. — John Cage

What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me. — John Cage

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound — John Betjeman

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33") — John Cage

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. — John Cage

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it. — John Cage

In an utter emptiness anything can take place. — John Cage

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do. — John Cage

Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right ... — John Cage

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions. — John Cage

Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in. — John Cage

To be spontaneous is to escape the cage of the ego by trusting that which is beyond the self. — John O'Donohue

Every something is an echo of nothing — John Cage

The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause. — John Capecci And Timothy Cage

Valda said that if you change your residence every six months you can legally free your children from compulsory education. — John Cage

We make our lives by what we love. — John Cage

One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there. — John Cage

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else. — John Cage