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Famous John Cage Quotes
“Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.”
“I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.”
“Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.”
“An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.”
“What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.”
“One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.”
“The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.”
“Each moment presents what happens.”
“No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.”
“As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.”
“Beware of losing what isn't in your head.”
“...we make our lives by what we love.”
“Nothing more than nothing can be said.”
“Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.”
“In an utter emptiness anything can take place.”
“If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.”
“There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.”
“A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.”