John Cage Quotes

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

The past is the past and besides it's passed

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

We can't let the past be forgotten.

I won't cling to the past.

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.

I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again. And never judge anything of the past from the new perspective that is arriving, because the new is new, incomparably new and the old was right in its own context, and the new is right in its own context.

I'm not the type of person that lives in the past, quite honestly.

I don't like to look too far back into the past.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I am not a person who will think about the past.

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it's all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.

I can't stay stuck in the past.

I don't want to talk about the past. I don't live in past.

There is no point staying on the past.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

We are not going to dwell on the past, we are always looking forward to the next game.

You learn from your mistakes at the end of the day. We don't got to keep drilling on the past, things like that. You live and you learn.

The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.