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John Cage
John Cage
American Composer
Born: Sep 5, 1912
Died: Aug 12, 1992
Highest Ideas Life Nothing Poetry Try
Related authors: Elliott Carter Eubie Blake George Crumb John Williams Leonard Bernstein Oscar Levant Stephen Sondheim Virgil Thomson
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. John Cage
People Old New Ideas Understand New Ideas Frightened Old Ones Why
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. John Cage
Those Cannot Useless Who Play Sleep
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. John Cage
Time Silence Try Space Empty Space We Cannot See Something Fact Make Empty Always Hear May In Fact Cannot Thing
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. John Cage
Saying Nothing Say Poetry Am
We need not destroy the past. It is gone. John Cage
Past Gone Destroy Need
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
Music Entertainment Culture Better Distraction Perform Piece Make Misuse Than Listen Acquisition Means
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
Try Boring Minutes Something Still Discovers Sixteen Eight After Then Eventually Four Two
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. John Cage
Nature Purpose Highest Puts Operation Accord Manner Her

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