Saturday, 10/10/09

No matter where you are, this landscape is just around the corner.

John Cage (1912-1992), “In a Landscape” (1948)/Stephen Drury, piano

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lagniappe

Music is a means of rapid transportation.

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What I’m proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude—that you act as though you’ve never been there before. So that you’re not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

—John Cage