Quote #1

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

More from John Cage

  1. Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
  2. A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any considera…
  3. 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 libe…
  4. I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll c…
  5. 'What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there…
  6. 'Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.'
  7. Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and,…
  8. We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

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