John Cage Quotes

In: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); in: 'Silence: lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, 4/SILENCE

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• I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Growth

• If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Future
  • Dream

• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• I like music a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Music
  • Like
  • Lot

• I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Music
  • Long
  • Country

• What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Perfect
  • More
  • Union

• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Melancholy

• Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Music
  • House
  • Opera

• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

• As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• If anybody was to look towards a big source of demand in future, it would be hard for them to miss India.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Future
  • Look
  • India

• Music is really something that makes people whole.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Music
  • Something

• Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Future
  • Today
  • Prepare

• I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Great
  • Music
  • Done

• I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Music
  • Think
  • Person

• It feels like there was a really, in some ways, kind of fashiony, contrived feeling that surrounds that scene. We always kind of were going around saying we're writing the music we wanted to be writing and somehow found ourselves in the middle of that. There were very few bands that were labeled that way that we really respected musically or were good friends with.

  

  Dustin Kensrue
  • Music
  • Middle
  • Fashiony

• To be cautious, one should not take high confidence as any absolute guarantee of anything.

  

  Elizabeth Loftus
  • Confidence
  • Guarantee
  • Cautious

• WWE is growing every day, every week, and every month.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Growing

• In: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); in: 'Silence: lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, 4/SILENCE

  

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