Cage Quotes

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.

Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.

Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

I barely leave my cage, my house.

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

A forest bird never wants a cage.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.

I have a tendency to kick it up. I like to rattle the cage.