Zitat des Tages von John Cage:
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
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.
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.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
When we separate music from life we get art.
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 acquisition of 'culture.'
