[b]John Cage
There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure. [/b]
Or three if you count the intellectual contraptions you find here.
Not one sound fears the silence that extinguishes it. And no silence exists that is not pregnant with sound.
In other words, whatever that means.
The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
You know, among other things.
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
Oh, sure, that’ll make them go away.
The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn’t stop when one turned away.
Our Indians or theirs, he wondered.
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.
So, what are the odds it’s a true story?