The Humor and Sobriety of John Cage
"Before anything else. It is an experience."
No expression of will or ego.
No walls between composer and performer.
No dualistic divisions into "high" or "low", "good" or "not good."
No "art" versus "life."
No value judgment and no lack of value judgment.
No arising and no lack of arising.
No separation of any kind - no walls at all - and therefore perfect interpenetration.
No form and no lack of form, no emptiness and no absence of emptiness.
No sensation and no lack of sensation.
No music and yet the music of the world.
Tacet.
No expression of will or ego.
No walls between composer and performer.
No dualistic divisions into "high" or "low", "good" or "not good."
No "art" versus "life."
No value judgment and no lack of value judgment.
No arising and no lack of arising.
No separation of any kind - no walls at all - and therefore perfect interpenetration.
No form and no lack of form, no emptiness and no absence of emptiness.
No sensation and no lack of sensation.
No music and yet the music of the world.
Tacet.
