John Cage

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

When we separate music from life we get art.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

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.'

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.