John Cage Famous Quotes
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
John Cage Quotations
All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love."
Erich Fromm
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
C D Jackson
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
Persian Proverb
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."
Michel Leiris
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
George Orwell
"Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw."
Computer Museum
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby