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Inspirational Quotes by John Cage
- I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- 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…
- There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
- The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
- There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
- We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
- If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
- Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
- We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
- Art is whatever you can get away with.
- Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
- When we separate music from life we get art.
- Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.
- Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
- I don't need sound to talk to me,
- In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
- Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.
- One need not fear for the future of music.
- Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot,
- My work became an exploration of non-intention.
- Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
- I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.
- A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.
- Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.
- 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…
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