John Cage Quotes About Wall

Quotes about: Wall

• After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, ‘In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.’ I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. I said, ‘In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.’

  John Cage

  Wall, Writing, Order

• I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'

  John Cage

  Wall, Writing, Feelings

  Observer magazine Interview, 1982.

• In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

  John Cage

  Wall, Cases

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.161, Wesleyan University Press

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