College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

John Cage
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More Quotes By John Cage
  1. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  2. There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

  3. Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

  4. All great art is a form of complaint

  5. Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

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