Quotes by John Cage

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life. We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. We need not destroy the past. It is gone. When we separate music from life we get art. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. - John Cage, American Composer (1912-1992)