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
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.
Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
There are no secrets.It's just we thought that they said dead. When they said bread.
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.