Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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.
Music
Sounds
Need
Following
Needs
Continue
Dies
Future
Sound
Fear
Death
More quotes by 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.
John Cage
One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
John Cage
The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
John Cage
In the dark, all cats are black.
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 function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
John Cage
If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
John Cage
Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
John Cage
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
John Cage
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
John Cage
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
John Cage
We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
John Cage
The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
John Cage
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
John Cage
Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
John Cage
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
John Cage
If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
John Cage
