235 Quotes by John Cage

Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences.

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

There are no secrets.It's just we thought that they said dead. When they said bread.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.