Skip to content

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

— John Cage Richard Kostelanetz (1988)

Another quote →

Topics

More quotes by John Cage

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

I have nothing to say/ and I am saying it/ and that is poetry/ as I need it.

Lecture on Nothing (1949)

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not possess it) and thus need not fear its loss.

All John Cage quotes →

You may also like

I don't think that corporations are these big bogeymen that a lot of people paint them to be.

Krist Novoselic

An artisan busies himself with his work for three hours each day and spends nine hours in study.

Maimonides Mishneh Torah (1180)

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.

Aaron Burr

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Marvin Bower The Will to Manage (1966)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: John Cage (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.