We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John CageAll I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.
John CageIf there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.
John CageI am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
John CageWe are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
John Cage