Excellent Quote by John Cage Download Open image “Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.” — John Cage ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excellent Heard Sound
If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done — B. B. King Copy Share Image
I just love crafting and shaping sounds... I like to breathe my own life into these sounds — Imogen Heap Copy Share Image
I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there... I wanted to make something that was for the night. — Kieran Hebden Copy Share Image
I've always tried to make music for someone who's never heard anything I've ever done. — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I just love making sounds. Anything that made a sound, as a kid I was just taken back by and would sit with it… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression. — Tom Verlaine 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
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing. — 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
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
Things are going well in Germany because the economy is booming and as an export-driven nation, we are profiting from the fact that we… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image