John Cage Uncaged Is Still Cagey
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“It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.”
Source: Talking at the boundaries
“From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.”
“I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.”
“My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.”
“There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.”
Source: John Cage Uncaged Is Still Cagey
“I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.”
“Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.”
“I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.”
“I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.”
“I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.”