John Cage Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

  John Cage

  School, Passing By, Musical

  Silence (1961)

• Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

  John Cage

  School, Passing By, People

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.55, Wesleyan University Press

• Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

  John Cage

  Home, School, Nursing

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

• We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

  John Cage

  Music, School, Two

  "Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 1990.

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