John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today.
But one must see that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together, that nothing was lost when everything was given away..
Sounds occur whether intended or not; the psychological turning in direction of those not intended seems at first to be a giving up of everything that belongs to humanity.
In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
There is always something to see, something to hear. -
The American Record Guide There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time.
It\'s what\'s happening now.
What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite.
He refuses to sermonize or pontificate.
The Saturday Review said of him: Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant.
John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today
