John Cage quotes Born: 09/05/1912 Died: 08/12/1992 Country: usa

• We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. (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) [music/culture]
• 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 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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