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John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
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Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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More quotes by 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
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
John Cage
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
John Cage
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
John Cage
As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
John Cage
People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
John Cage
In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
John Cage
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
John Cage
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
John Cage
No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
John Cage
Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
John Cage
A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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
My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
John Cage
The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
John Cage
All great art is a form of complaint
John Cage
