All John Cage Quotes
- Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Factories
- Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do. Funny
- Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. Funny
- In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions. All
- The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later. Came
- For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the… Any
- Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences. Art
- I don't need sound to talk to me, Inspirational
- It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. Cannot Sleep
- In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall. Beating
- Everything I see is something I haven't memorized. Funny
- One need not fear for the future of music. Fear
- Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot, Inspirational
- My work became an exploration of non-intention. Became
- After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, ‘In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.’ I… Always Encounter
- 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 relationships. But… 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