John Cage Quotes About Mistakes

Quotes about: Mistakes

• It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.

  John Cage

  Mistake, Glimpse, Wake Up

• A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

  John Cage

  Music, Mistake, Happens

  Pierre Boulez, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, John Cage, Robert Samuels (1995). “The Boulez-Cage Correspondence”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

• One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

  John Cage

  Mistake, Writing, Years

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

• College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

  John Cage

  Mistake, Book, Reading

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.61, Wesleyan University Press

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