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. John Cage
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
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Frank Zappa
Music is. .. A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
Philosophy is the highest music.
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Plato
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
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Plato
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
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Noah Levine
More Quotes By John Cage
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.
All great art is a form of complaint
Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living
