“I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.” ThinkingWayMeanIdeasDoneSoundKnowingEnvironmentImagineGoes OnDetailsContemporaryAbstractImagine ThatContemporary MusicKnowing More Author:John Cage
“There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!” EvilHoursGoes OnRootsMurderAbstractGood TimesHaving A Good TimeHerdsChewing Book:Night Watch Source: Night Watch
“... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.” StudyGoes OnDiscoveryPhilosophicalAbstractSublimeEmploying Book:Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope Source: Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope
“What we grieve for is not the loss of a grand vision, but rather the loss of common things, events and gestures.... ordinariness is the most precious thing we struggle for, what the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto fought for. Not noble causes or abstract theories. But the right to go on living with a sense of purpose and a sense of self-worth--an ordinary life.” SelfPurposeCausesLossCommonGriefVisionStruggleEventsTheoryGoes OnOrdinaryJewNobleSelf WorthGrievingAbstractHolocaustGesturesGhettoSense Of SelfOrdinary LifePrecious ThingsOrdinarinessCommon ThingsNoble CausesWarsaw Author:Irena Klepfisz