John Cage Quotes

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.'

John Cage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MusicCultureBetterEntertainment

Government officials and citizens care about many causes - and they all require resources. For example, I am personally passionate about ending the human trafficking that still occurs within our borders.

Joe Lonsdale

GovernmentI AmEndingCareBorders

I feel very grateful for the way I was brought up. I did not realise it then, but as I grew older and started writing and realised the material that was there was very strong, I felt very grateful that my life was complicated and that my identity was never clear but put me in a position that was always questioned.

Jhumpa Lahiri

LifeGratefulIdentityMeWriting

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

John Erskine

DecisionOpinionExerciseInformation

In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn't mention money.

Robert Mundell

MoneySchoolEconomicsEarlyLondon

When I was in college, I lived in a mostly black, poor neighborhood. That's where I grew up, but I attended a mostly white upper-class school in conservative Mississippi. I was often very aware of how I presented myself.

Angie Thomas

MyselfSchoolCollegeBlackWhite

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.

Jeanne Phillips

We would take a little bit of money out of a huge increase in ballistic missile defense and put it in a place where it will do a lot of good, namely, in targeted pay increases to our enlisted personnel, particularly our NCOs and our junior warrant officers.

John Spratt

GoodMoneyPlaceWillPayOut

This black hole that people talk about in my career in the '70s, when I didn't make any films - in retrospect, what I was doing was learning my job.

Stephen Frears

LearningJobPeopleBlackDoing

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

Stephane Hessel

HopeDeathSomethingMine

Wherever I go, people want to come and meet me. At times, I feel a bit suffocated too, as I am unable to be normal and myself.

Shilpa Shinde

MyselfI AmPeopleMeFeelMeet

We're Real Madrid - and being successful is part of our DNA.

Toni Kroos

DNARealSuccessfulBeingMadrid

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

Robert Collier

AlwaysHeelsDemandSupply

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