"Begin anywhere" ... "I have nothing to say / and I
am saying it / and that is poetry / as I needed it" ... "I certainly had no feeling for
harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to
write music. He said, 'You'll
come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'
" ... "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." ... "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." ... "Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory
or a truck passing by a music school?" ... "Be open to whatever comes
next" ... "As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer
inconsistency." ... John Cage
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In celebration of John Milton Cage Sept 5 1912 – 2012
100-silences-X-100-listenings
Option A) ... Perform a silence for 4' 33" – and for 1 of 100 times
Option B) ... Listen in silence for 4' 33" – and for 1 of 100 times
