Quotes by "John Cage"

Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

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

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

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.