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Type: Composer Quotes Category: American Composer Quotes Date of Birth: September 5, 1912 Date of Death: August 12, 1992 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: John Cage Related Authors: Stephen Sondheim Carter Burwell Carlisle Floyd Leo Ornstein Oscar Levant George Crumb John Zorn David Amram |
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. John Cage Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. John Cage If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. John Cage It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.'' John Cage It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. John Cage The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. John Cage The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. John Cage There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. John Cage There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. John Cage We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. John Cage We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. John Cage We need not destroy the past. It is gone. John Cage When we separate music from life we get art. John Cage |
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