John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.