All John Cage Quotes
- When I hear what we call ‘music,’ it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of… Acting
- Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes. Analyze
- I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing… All
- 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. Celebration
- Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living. Art
- I like being moved. I don't like being pushed. Inspirational
- Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical. Composing
- A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection. Exactly
- We need not destroy the past. It is gone. Destroy
- If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. Century
- If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun. Accomplish
- Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins. Artist
- An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope… Arrive
- Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case. All
- Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat. Best
- My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard Favorite
- When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing… Acting
- There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have… Anything One
- I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with… Check
- Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation. Edifying