What is "empty words"

n. loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn: palaver, hot air, empty talk, rhetoric]

Empty Words: Writings ’73–’78 is a book by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1979 by Wesleyan University Press. The book contains the following works:

• "Foreword" (1978)
• "Preface to Lecture on the Weather" (1979)
• "How the Piano Came to be Prepared" (1973)
• "Empty Words" (1974–5)
• "Where Are We Eating? and What Are We Eating? (38 Variations on a Theme by Alison Knowles)" (1975)
• "Series re Morris Graves" (1974)
• "Sixty-One Mesostics Re and Not Re Norman O. Brown" (1979)
• "Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake" (1978)
• "The Future of Music" (1974)

Also included are the following mesostics:

• "Many Happy Returns" (1979)
• "A Long Letter" (1977)
• "Song" (1979)
• "For S. Fort, Dancer" (1979)
• "For William Mc N. Who studied with Ezra Pound" (1979)
• " Wright's Oberlin House Restored by E. Johnson" (1979)
• "'I'm the happiest person I know' (S.W.)" (1975)

Empty Words is a 1979 book by John Cage.

Empty Words may also refer to:

• "Empty Words" (song), a 1995 song by Death
  • Empty Words, the official website of Death founder Chuck Schuldiner
• "Empty Words", a song by Blackmore's Night from Secret Voyage
• "Empty Words", a song by Bowery Electric
• "Empty Words", a song by Breed 77 from In My Blood (En Mi Sangre)
• "Empty Words", a song by Christina Aguilera from Lotus
• "Empty Words", a song by The Groop
• "Empty Words", a song by Quasi from Field Studies
• "Empty Words", a song by Rich Kids
• Empty Words, a 2000s series of graphic novels by Benjamin Rivers