John Cage Quotes

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

John Cage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992

Topics

PeopleIdeasNewWhyUnderstandOld

You're always thinking, What's the next move - the career, the money.

Joaquin Phoenix

MoneyThinkingYouCareerAlways

I just don't like to talk about the past.

Jochen Zeitz

PastTalkJustLikeAbout

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Jill Lepore

HistoryTryingWorthChooseKnow

Transformation as a female actor is allowed up to a certain extent - as long as they can still recognize you on a red carpet. For a woman to be a shape-shifter, and to be that malleable in spirit, is really not OK with the patriarchy.

Andrea Riseborough

WomanRedTransformationLongYou

I want to be able to make people laugh as hard as they possibly can, and I really think they need that.

Andrew Dice Clay

PeopleThinkLaughWantNeedHard

To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.

Aneel Bhusri

TimePerspectiveYouLookFastBig

I like putting all my eggs in one basket and then watching the basket very carefully.

Stanley Druckenmiller

WatchingEggsBasketLikeVeryThen

In every relationship, there are two perspectives to it.

Stanley A. McChrystal

RelationshipTwoEveryPerspectives

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.

Robert Fogel

TogetherNew YorkParentsSmallBorn

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

Lou Reed

WorkGoodConfidentNeverAnything

I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

Joshua Chamberlain

LeaderManNeverIdeaPartisan

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.

Joseph Mazzello

FutureYourselfMeFeelPlanYou

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