John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr.was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth5 September 1912
CountryUnited States of America
Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.
A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.
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.
To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.
Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.
If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun.
In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.
One need not fear for the future of music.
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot,
My work became an exploration of non-intention.
Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.