Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
John CageI remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.
John CageWhy do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
John CageThe emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
John CagePercussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.
John Cage