Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
Jr.
John Milton
Jr. Cage
J. C.
Poetry
Realize
Realizing
Nothing
Poetic
Possess
Soon
More quotes by John Cage
My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
John Cage
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
John Cage
If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
John Cage
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
John Cage
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 other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
John Cage
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
John Cage
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 to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
John Cage
Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
John Cage
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
John Cage
Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
John Cage
I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
John Cage
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
John Cage
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
John Cage
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
John Cage
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage
Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
John Cage
In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
John Cage
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
