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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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More quotes by John Cage
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
John Cage
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
John Cage
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
John Cage
When we separate music from life we get is art.
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
In the dark, all cats are black.
John Cage
Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
John Cage
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
John Cage
My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
John Cage
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
John Cage
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
John Cage
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
John Cage
Out of the work comes the work.
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
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
In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
John Cage
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
John Cage
Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
John Cage
