All John Cage Quotes
- I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized… Any
- One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the… Day
- When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much… Able
- All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again. Able
- We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for… Activity
- Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their… Been
- An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality. Actuality
- The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. Artist
- We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what… Determined
- The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning. Grand
- What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me. Inspirational
- We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities. All
- One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there. Funny
- Out of the work comes the work. Funny
- If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical… Begin
- As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. Consistency
- Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some… Artist
- The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. Anger
- The world is teeming; anything can happen. Happen
- It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and… Course
- In the dark, all cats are black. All
- Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical… Change
- It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else. Inspirational
- All great art is a form of complaint All
- Every something is an echo of nothing Echo