23 ordspråk av John Cage

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John Cage föddes den September 5th 1912 och dog den 12 August 1992 - US composer
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 Everyone is in the best seat

 Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction

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

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

 I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry

 Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

 If someone says 'can't,' that shows you what to do

 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.

 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.''

 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.''

 It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

 Music is a means of Rapid Transportation

 Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation

 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.

 The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning


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