John Cage
Author profile
born
in Los Angeles, California, The United States
September 05, 1912
died
August 12, 1992
gender
male
website
genre
influences
Norman O. Brown, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp...more
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
— published 1961 — 15 editions |
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A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings
— published 1967 — 2 editions |
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M: Writings '67-'72
— published 1973 — 5 editions |
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Empty Words: Writings '73-'78
— published 1979 — 5 editions |
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Musicage: Cage Muses on Words * Art * Music
— published 1996 — 3 editions |
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For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles
by John Cage, Daniel Charles — published 1981 — 5 editions |
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Notations
— 3 editions |
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Composition in Retrospect
— published 2008 |
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X: Writings '79-'82
— published 1983 — 5 editions |
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I-VI: Methodstructureintentiondisciplinenotationindeterminacy Interpenetrationimitationdevotioncircumstancesvariablestruct Nonunderstandingcontingencyinconsistencyperformance
— published 1990 — 3 editions |
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“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”
― John Cage
― John Cage
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
― John Cage
― John Cage
“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I feel it's not beautiful? And very shortly you discover there is no reason.”
― John Cage
― John Cage
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