Creative Quotations from . . .
John Cage
(1912-1992) born on Sep 05
US "composer, poet, essayist, painter, pianist". "His avante-garde, inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas, e.g. with 12-tone scales, profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music."
 
   
F
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 one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisitiuon of "culture.""

R
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
A
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
N
"If you don't have enough time to accomplish something, consider the work finished once it's begun."
K
"If someone says can't, that shows you what to do."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Forerunners of Modern Music; At Random," in Tiger's Eye (New York, March 1949; repr. in Silence, 1961)."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: "From "Journey in Word," ed. Cyndi Craven; an internet collection of quotations"
N: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."



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