When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
John CageWhat I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
John CageI can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage