Top 120 John Cage Quotes (2024 Update)
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John Cage Quote: “A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.”

101. “A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.”

John Cage Quote: “Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one’s mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.”

102. “Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one’s mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.”

John Cage Quote: “I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.”

103. “I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.”

John Cage Quote: “Out of the work comes the work.”

104. “Out of the work comes the work.”

John Cage Quote: “Each moment presents what happens.”

105. “Each moment presents what happens.”

John Cage Quote: “Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.”

106. “Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.”

John Cage Quote: “Beware of losing what isn’t in your head.”

107. “Beware of losing what isn’t in your head.”

John Cage Quote: “Now that things are so simple, there’s so much to do.”

108. “Now that things are so simple, there’s so much to do.”

John Cage Quote: “The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.”

109. “The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.”

John Cage Quote: “It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.”

110. “It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.”

John Cage Quote: “My work became an exploration of non-intention.”

111. “My work became an exploration of non-intention.”

John Cage Quote: “Guy Nearing told us it’s a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we’re obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn’t noticed going out.”

112. “Guy Nearing told us it’s a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we’re obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn’t noticed going out.”

John Cage Quote: “I nearly left this earth a few minutes ago – ecstasy – word from you. Pretty soon I’ll write music for you.”

113. “I nearly left this earth a few minutes ago – ecstasy – word from you. Pretty soon I’ll write music for you.”

John Cage Quote: “I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.”

114. “I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.”

John Cage Quote: “An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he’ll arrive before death overtakes him.”

115. “An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he’ll arrive before death overtakes him.”

John Cage Quote: “If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.”

116. “If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.”

John Cage Quote: “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.”

117. “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 Quote: “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.’”

118. “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 Quote: “Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want.”

119. “Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want.”

John Cage Quote: “Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.”

120. “Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.”

John Cage Quote: “I have attempted briefly here to set forth a view of the arts which does not separate them from the rest of life, but rather confuses the difference between Art and Life.”

121. “I have attempted briefly here to set forth a view of the arts which does not separate them from the rest of life, but rather confuses the difference between Art and Life.”

John Cage Quote: “Power and profit structures’re out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they’re obliged to use new gimmicks.”

122. “Power and profit structures’re out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they’re obliged to use new gimmicks.”

John Cage Quote: “I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound’s duration parameter, sound’s only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.”

123. “I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound’s duration parameter, sound’s only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.”

John Cage Quote: “There is nothing we need to do that isn’t dangerous.”

124. “There is nothing we need to do that isn’t dangerous.”

John Cage Quote: “What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.”

125. “What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.”

John Cage Quote: “Now we have come to the end of the part about structure. However, it occurs to me to say more about structure.”

126. “Now we have come to the end of the part about structure. However, it occurs to me to say more about structure.”

John Cage Quote: “When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, ‘I’ll be able to fix you so that you’ll write much more music than you do now.’ I said, ‘Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.’ That promise of his put me off.”

127. “When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, ‘I’ll be able to fix you so that you’ll write much more music than you do now.’ I said, ‘Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.’ That promise of his put me off.”

John Cage Quote: “Everything I see is something I haven’t memorized.”

128. “Everything I see is something I haven’t memorized.”

John Cage Quote: “Composing’s one thing, performing’s another, listening’s a third. What can they have to do with one another?”

129. “Composing’s one thing, performing’s another, listening’s a third. What can they have to do with one another?”

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