Frasi di John Cage

„Mi resi conto che non esiste una reale e oggettiva separazione tra suono e silenzio, ma soltanto tra l'intenzione di ascoltare e quella di non farlo.“

—  John Cage

viene da Rudimathematici? Info maggiori?

„Sviluppare un orecchio solo per i suoni musicali è come crearsi un ego. Si inizia a rifiutare i suoni che non sono musicali e ci si taglia fuori da gran parte delle esperienze.“

—  John Cage

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della musica classica, traduzione di Anna Fontebuoni, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 303. ISBN 9788858022894)

„Ogni qualcosa è un eco del nulla.“

—  John Cage

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro della musica classica, traduzione di Anna Fontebuoni, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 305. ISBN 9788858022894)

„I suoni se ne stanno nella musica per rendersi conto del silenzio che li separa.“

—  John Cage

„Ora non ho più bisogno di un pianoforte: ho la 6th Avenue con tutti i suoi suoni.“

—  John Cage

„Per me il significato essenziale del silenzio è la rinuncia a qualsiasi intenzione.“

—  John Cage

„La mia opera è intesa come dimostrazione della vita.“

—  John Cage

„Every something is an echo of nothing“

—  John Cage

„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

„I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.“

—  John Cage

Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz (1988) Conversing with Cage
1980s

„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.“

—  John Cage

„I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.“

—  John Cage

„Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.“

—  John Cage

„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.“

—  John Cage

„I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.“

—  John Cage

"Lecture on Nothing" (1949)
1940s

„In the dark, all cats are black.“

—  John Cage

„As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.“

—  John Cage

Quote from an interview by John Corbett (1989)
1980s
Origine: Silence

„There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.“

—  John Cage, libro Silence: Lectures and Writings

Origine: Silence: Lectures and Writings

„All great art is a form of complaint“

—  John Cage