Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
John CageThe emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.
John CageI needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.
John Cage