{"author":"John Cage","author_id":"John+Cage","total_quotes":42,"quotes":[{"text":"Ideas are one thing  and what happens is another.","author":"John Cage","tags":["getting","going"],"id":28903,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"It would be better to have no school at all than the schools we now have. Encouraged, instead of frightened, children could learn several languages before reaching age of four, at that age engaging in the invention of their own languages. Play'd be play instead of being, as now, release of repressed anger.","author":"John Cage","tags":["children","education","education-system","educational-philosophy","fear","play","school-reform"],"id":35443,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"After I had been studying with him for two years, Schoenberg said, 'In order to write music, you must have a feeling for harmony.' I explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. I said, 'In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.","author":"John Cage","tags":["art","music"],"id":59543,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear  which remains unsatisfied  and even uneasy  until it hears something better. I am convinced...That provided the ear be at length made amends  there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony  to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder  is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.","author":"John Cage","tags":["music"],"id":66645,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less, and indiscriminately for everyone. Return to nature as nature pre-technologically was, attractive and possible as it still in some places is, can only work for some of us.","author":"John Cage","tags":["nature","off-the-grid","society","survival","technology","transhumanism"],"id":72458,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.","author":"John Cage","tags":["comedy","emptiness","freedom"],"id":82919,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"All great art is a form of complaint.","author":"John Cage","tags":["art","creativity"],"id":90685,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.","author":"John Cage","tags":["awareness","curiosity","value"],"id":100065,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.","author":"John Cage","tags":["side"],"id":105583,"author_id":"John+Cage"},{"text":"If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.","author":"John Cage","tags":["acceptance","avant-garde","modernism","novelty","populism"],"id":126612,"author_id":"John+Cage"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}