235 Quotes by John Cage

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right...

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.

Out of the work comes the work.