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- The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.
- No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
- Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
- There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
- What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
- Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.