John Cage

(16 votes)   There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

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(15 votes)   Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

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(11 votes)   There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

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(89 votes)   If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

John Cage
1912-1992, American Composer

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(16 votes)   I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

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(15 votes)   When we separate music from life we get art.

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(14 votes)   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.

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(14 votes)   We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

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(13 votes)   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 discover that there is no reason.

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(13 votes)   We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

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(12 votes)   I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

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(12 votes)   It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

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(11 votes)   It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''

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(11 votes)   We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

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(11 votes)   The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

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