3 John Cage Quotes on Perception

John Cage quotes on perception

2. Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

11. 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 way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

16. 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. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.