John Cage Quotes about Silence

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

Silence, Sound, Integrating

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

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

Silence, Sound, Happenings

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

Silence, Sound, Pregnant

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

Sound And Music, Silence, Trying

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