What did John Cage mean by: Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. - John Cage Composer · USA Copy
+ We only hear what we listen for. Feraz Zeid, September 15, 2023December 24, 2023, John Cage, God, 0 - John Cage Composer · USA
+ Beware of losing what isn’t in your head. Feraz Zeid, September 28, 2023December 26, 2023, John Cage, Losing, 0 - John Cage Composer · USA
+ Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. Feraz Zeid, June 4, 2023December 12, 2023, John Cage, Ideas, One Thing, 0 - John Cage Composer · USA
+ Art’s purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cage, Art, Mind, Music, 0 - John Cage Composer · USA
+ We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cage, Involved, 0 - John Cage Composer · USA
+ A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection. Feraz Zeid, September 11, 2023December 26, 2023, John Cage, Music, Resurrection, 0 - John Cage Composer · USA
+ There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cage, Fashion, Lazy, Opinion, 0 - John Cage Composer · USA
+ Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I’m only being practical. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Cage, Criticism, Music, Piano, 0 - John Cage Composer · USA
If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state. - Frank Zappa Musician · USA
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. - Leopold Stokowski Conductor · United Kingdom
Don’t only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets. - Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. - W. H. Auden Poet · England
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts. - Hermann von Helmholtz
