John Cage Quotes
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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.
— Brian Eno
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
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
The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.
— David Mitchell
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
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
— 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
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
We, the garden of technology. We, undecidable.
— 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
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
We only hear what we listen for.
— John Cage
As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
— 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
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
— John Cage
In our forestspart 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
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
— 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
Out of the work comes the work.
— John Cage
Farting, don't think, just fart.
— John Cage
Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound
— John Betjeman
In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
— 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
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
We make our lives by what we love.
— John Cage
