We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. John Cage More Quotes by John Cage More Quotes From John Cage The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later. John Cage pieceswhitefirsts Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes. John Cage differentprocesstrying There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent John Cage gangorchestrapeople All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again. John Cage together-againablereligion Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. John Cage sound-and-musicsilencetrying One need not fear for the future of music. John Cage needs The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread. John Cage justicefooddeath Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing. John Cage singingmusicpractice 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. John Cage delaycookingfood If someone says can't, that shows you what to do. John Cage possibilityshowschallenges Beware of losing what isn't in your head. John Cage losing Nothing more than nothing can be said. John Cage said Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it. John Cage celebrationsupport The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning. John Cage turnstablesmind In an utter emptiness anything can take place. John Cage emptiness There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable. John Cage lazyopinionfashion I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended. John Cage durationmusicalsound Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right. John Cage enoughpeople The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. John Cage operationsaccordpurpose It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music. John Cage twobloodyears
