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All great art is a form of complaint
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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More quotes by John Cage
Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
John Cage
When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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 is not boring at all.
John Cage
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
John Cage
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
John Cage
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
John Cage
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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
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. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
John Cage
Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
John Cage
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
John Cage
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
John Cage
The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
John Cage
There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
John Cage
Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
John Cage
Art is whatever you can get away with.
John Cage
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
John Cage
What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
John Cage
Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
John Cage
In the dark, all cats are black.
John Cage
