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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
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... (more John Cage quotes)
Did scholarly research into the science of fungology (the study of mushrooms and other fungi).
His most (in)famous composition was 4' 33", consisting of musicans seated in front of their instruments without touching them for three movements, totaling four minutes and thirty three seconds. The sheet music simply reads "TACIT" (silent) for each movement.
Once performed one of his pieces on "I've Got a Secret," using among other items a grand piano, a duck call, a toaster, a transistor radio, and... (more John Cage trivia)
| John Cage Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind by Kathan Brown | |
| The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life by David Revill | |
| The Cambridge Companion to John Cage (Cambridge Companions to Music) by David Nicholls |
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