We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

More Quotes by John Cage

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.'

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

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