One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
John CageTheatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
John CageI certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'
John CageCollege: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
John Cage