Quote #14

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

More from John Cage

  1. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
  2. The living, for the first time in history, now outnumber the dead
  3. Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
  4. In Zen, it is said, if something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. …
  5. If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical, it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that w…
  6. The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you disc…
  7. I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.
  8. As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

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