Quotes about John Cage

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation

#John Cage

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then...

#John Cage

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

#John Cage

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

#John Cage

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old...

#John Cage

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to...

#John Cage

When we separate music from life we get art.

#John Cage

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

#John Cage

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

#John Cage

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our...

#John Cage

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

#John Cage

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is...

#John Cage