5 John Cage Quotes on Life

John Cage quotes on life

3. 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 consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.

6. '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 before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.'

9. We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

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

15. The living, for the first time in history, now outnumber the dead