English Quotes

“Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.” John Cage — English Quotes (@english_quotes) July 25, 2019

“A newspaperman wrote asking me to send'im my philosophy in a nutshell. Get out of whatever cage you happen to be in.” John Cage

“We're in a confusion of books. Bonfire?” John Cage

“Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'” John Cage

“Sometimes we blur the distinction between art and life; sometimes we try to clarify it. We don't stand on one leg. We stand on both.” John Cage

“Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want.” John Cage

“College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.” John Cage

“You can tell if you're in an attractive American spot: it's littered with trash.” John Cage

“I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.” John Cage

“We dream of the day when no one knows who's President, because no one bothered to vote.” John Cage