John Cage Quotes about Feelings

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When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic - here on Sixth Avenue, for

When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic - here on Sixth Avenue, for instance - I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound... I don’t need sound to talk to me.

John Cage

Talking, Ideas, Feelings

Interview with Miroslav Sebestik (1991), as quoted in Miroslav Sebestik's documentary "Listen" (ARTE France Developpement), 2003.

I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.

John Cage

Feelings, Want, Way

I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'

John Cage

Wall, Writing, Feelings

Observer magazine Interview, 1982.

John Cage Quotes about Feelings

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