People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to… — John Cage Copy Share Image
If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd. — John Cage Copy Share Image
My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet. — John Cage Copy Share Image
With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have… — John Cage Copy Share Image
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though… — John Cage Copy Share Image
If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun. — John Cage Copy Share Image
We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The… — John Cage Copy Share Image
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization… — John Cage Copy Share Image
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… — John Cage Copy Share Image
It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room… — John Cage Copy Share Image
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art.… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“...the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access… — John Cage Copy Share Image
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — John Cage Copy Share Image
To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake… — John Cage Copy Share Image
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. — John Cage Copy Share Image
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. — John Cage Copy Share Image
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