Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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.
Going
Turned
Long
Window
Like
Knew
Stop
Looking
Permanently
Away
Indians
Didn
Landscape
Music
Hearing
More quotes by John Cage
Each moment presents what happens.
John Cage
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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 edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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
I don't need sound to talk to me.
John Cage
Art is whatever you can get away with.
John Cage
...we make our lives by what we love.
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
When we separate music from life we get is art.
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
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
My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
John Cage
The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
John Cage
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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
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
In the dark, all cats are black.
John Cage
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
John Cage
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
John Cage
