'John Cage' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Cage, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Before the Last Drop

  2014, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Surrounded

  2013, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen John Cage's Musicircus

  2012, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Novembre

  2010, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Wednesdays at A's

  2009, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki

  2006, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Tentatives de se décrire

  2005, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Um Filme Sem História

  2002, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Sonic Acts: From Stockhausen to Squarepusher

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen John Cage: From Zero

  1995, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen John Cage: From Zero

  1995, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Revenge of the Dead Indians

  1993, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen 22708 Types

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Écoute

  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Film über Nichts

  1992, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen One 11 and 103

  1992, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Cage/Cunningham

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Peefeeyatko

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen John Cage: Man and Myth

  1990, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Mr. Hoover and I

  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Poema: Cidade

  1986, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Four American Composers

  1983, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Seven Portraits

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sometimes It Works, Sometimes It Doesn't

  1983, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Poetry in Motion

  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective

  1979, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen C'est la vie, Rose

  1977, role: actor , character name: Schachspieler
• Play in Full Screen Global Groove

  1973, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen American Art in the 1960s

  1972, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen End of the Art World

  1971, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen John Cage

  1966, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sound??

  1966, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Works of Calder

  1950, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Horror Dream

  1948, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Dreams That Money Can Buy

  1947, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen At Land

  1944, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen An Optical Poem

  1937, role: miscellaneous crew

Cage, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen I vädurens tecken

  2006, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen I julens tecken

  2005, role: editor
• Play in Full Screen De sex årstiderna

  2003, role: editor

Famous 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."

"We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly."

"The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning"

"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all."

"If someone says 'can't,' that shows you what to do"

"Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction"

"Music is a means of Rapid Transportation"

"I have nothing to say And I am saying it And that is poetry"

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

"The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation."

"It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep."

"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture.""

"We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life."

"Ideas are one thing and what happens is another."

"I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry."

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot."

"We need not destroy the past. It is gone."

"When we separate music from life we get art."

John Cage

Born: 1912-09-05

Died: 1992-08-12