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John Cage nejznámější citáty
John Cage: Citáty anglicky
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz (1988) Conversing with Cage
1980s
Quote of John Cage, in: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); in: 'Silence: lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, V.
1930s
“I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.”
"Lecture on Nothing" (1949)
1940s
“As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.”
Quote from an interview by John Corbett (1989)
1980s
Zdroj: Silence
“The world is teeming; anything can happen.”
Zdroj: Silence: Lectures and Writings
"Communication", the third of the Composition as a Process lectures, John Cage gave in Darmstadt in 1958 and published in Silence.
1950s
Zdroj: Classical Composer, From: 4'33"
Quote in 'John Cage, For the Birds: John Cage In Conversation with Daniel Charles', London/New York: Marion Boyars, 1981; as quoted in: 'Tàpies: From Within', June ─ November, 2013 - Presse Release, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC ), p. 17, note 10
1980s
Quote of "Experimental Music", John Cage (1957)
1950s
"Lecture on Nothing" (1949)
1940s
Quote of Cage, in an interview with Miroslav Sebestik, 1991; in Listen, documentary by Miroslav Sebestik. ARTE France Développement, 2003; as quoted on Wikipedia, note 54
1990s
1952, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812
1950s
“A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.”
Quote of John Cage from Forerunners of Modern Music (1949), first published in the New York journal A Tiger's Eye, later collected in Silence.
1940s
Quote of John Cage, in: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); SILENCE 3-4
1930s
Quote of John Cage, in: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); SILENCE; lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, CREDO/3
1930s
1955, quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812
1950s
“Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.”
Quoted in Richard Kostelanetz (1988) Conversing with Cage
1980s