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One Quotes by John Cage
- 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…
- It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen…
- The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
- Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay…
- Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
- One need not fear for the future of music.
- 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…
- 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.
- Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
- 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…
- Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
- 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…
- Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.
- Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
- My favorite piece of music is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.
- Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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