“Today is beautiful and I am dreaming of you and enigma and how we are together today: your words in my ears making me limp and taut by turns with delight. Oh, I am sure we could use each other today.
I like to believe that you are writing my music now: god knows i’m not doing it, because it simply seems to happen.
Pardon the intrusion: but when in September will you be back? I would like to measure my breath in relation to the air between us.”
More from John Cage
“Well, that's the trouble, I suppose, in coming at people with honesty. They sometimes…”
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
“As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.”
“As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.”