Composing Quote by John Cage Download Open image “The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.” — John Cage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Composing Integrating Materials Music Music is Silence Sound
Music is not just a composition of sounds, it is a tool to enhancing scenes. — Anette Sandberg Copy Share Image
I equate composing with orchestrating. I think my music in terms of an orchestra. — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions. — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“What is the use of composing if it is to confine the product within the precinct of the concert or the solitude of listening… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
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… — John Cage Copy Share Image
It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room… — John Cage Copy Share Image
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art.… — John Cage Copy Share Image
“...the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access… — John Cage Copy Share Image
To see, one must go beyond the imiagination and for that one must stand absolutely still as though at the center of a leap. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake… — John Cage Copy Share Image
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. — John Cage Copy Share Image
People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life… — John Powell Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
I'm the only actor who has done everything, right from anchoring shows to composing and singing songs to theatre to movies. — Javed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
I was really into the music of Cream after I finished composing the music for 'BTTB.' — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room,… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers,… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
![“It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they…” quote by John Cage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/153/john-cage-2094_blood_it-was-at-harvard-not-quite-forty-years_56114.jpg)
