Quotes by John Cage

Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of...

#America And Americans, #Food

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why...

#Questioning

Music is a means of Rapid Transportation

#Music

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