Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
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 CageAn artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.
John CageLet 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 Cage