| Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. John Cage Quotations |
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| I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. John Cage Quotes |
| I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. John Cage Remarks |
| I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry John Cage Adages |
| If someone says 'can't,' that shows you what to do John Cage Popular Quotes |
| If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. John Cage Remarks |
| 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 |
| If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. John Cage |
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| It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.'' John Cage Popular Quotes |
| It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. John Cage Remarks |
| Music is a means of Rapid Transportation John Cage |
| The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. John Cage Sayings |
| The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. John Cage Quotes |
| There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. John Cage |
| We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. John Cage |
| We need not destroy the past. It is gone. John Cage Quotes |
