John Cage Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• 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.

  John Cage

  Life, Music, Time

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

• There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

  John Cage

  Silence, Sound, Happenings

• The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

  John Cage

  Silence, Sound, Integrating

  Pierre Boulez, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, John Cage, Robert Samuels (1995). “The Boulez-Cage Correspondence”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

• Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

  John Cage

  Sound And Music, Silence, Trying

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.22, Wesleyan University Press

• Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.

  John Cage

  Silence, Sound, Pregnant

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