John Cage Quotes

I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

all day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head

People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.

I am not big on jewelry, but I do love hats as an accessory, specifically snap backs and beanies.

I have a collection of 50-plus snapback hats.

Ball caps travel far and wide. They do far more than keep the sun out of your eyes or the cold off your head. Ball caps are a statement.

Hats look exactly the same. There's no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.

I love all kinds of caps and hats, but my favourite is the baseball cap.

I have a big head, so I can appreciate a good hat.

I don't really talk about this because it seems indulgent, but I lost my hair, I'm bald, I had alopecia in my teens. That was back in the late '80s, well before people shaved their heads. So it's probably one of the reasons why I have been obsessed with that age, because it's locked in time where I feel like I had this personal loss that so affected my vanity, and I don't really feel like I handled it well. I'm so much older now, so it's not a big deal, but when I think back at it, I can conjure up how I felt then.

I think the sexiest thing is a hat. It's very sexy!

It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat

This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really sad and frightening that something like that could have happened. But I don't really think of myself as Russian anymore. I didn't even live there for that long.

[Immigrating] didn't burn out my desire to travel, though that can happen. There's nothing like immigration to make you want to just stay put. But what I think of as home is this life between Santo Domingo and the parts of New Jersey and New York City that were my childhood, so in my mind it's like home is all those things combined.

All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to think of your ear or one of your eyes or elbow, also familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

I think of myself as a human being.

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be, I think that I . . . because . . . ugh!

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.