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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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Cage's Sonny (about two prostitutes in New Orleans (James Franco and Mena Suvari) was produced from a script by John Carlen, a bankrobber who wrote the screenplay for the film while in jail.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Paradoxically, the idea of not doing art teaches us a lot about art, just as John Cage's famous "4' 33" in masquerading as silence reveals the vast realm of sound.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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To recreate the layered effect in words, I have borrowed freely from John Cage's mesostic techniques and Jackson MacLow's aleotory/chance techniques.
John Cages ‘ finds it quite curious that, given such wonderful technological means for creativity, our schools continue to fix their minds on historical means of creating music’ (Reimer and Wright, 1992: 48)
Here, the German reedist undertakes the not easy task of playing John Cage's music: a difficulty arising from the very same freedom that Cage's "chances" yield to everyone involved in its interpretation.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Those who did--the John Cages, the Philip Glasses--found their fame liberally doused with the vitriol of outraged purists determined to claim the classical form as their own life-supported vegetable.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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The first four minutes of the trio's debut recording bears resemblance to John Cage's early chance orchestrations or the Art Ensemble of Chicago in their most abstract form.
Music that is intelligent and exhuberent - influenced equally by John Cage's notions of indeterminacy and general dada craziness: a bass player who sings opera, a drummer who plays with toys, and two young reed phenoms.
John Cage, the Princeton composers, and a number of other musicians had introduced electronic sound into the academic music sphere and concert stage.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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listening to john cage's 'five' and curing my spine before our show at the sugar refinery in vancouver, BC.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Nicolas Cage plays the screenwriter Kaufman in the film, who is just coming to grips with the success of his first screenplay for Being John Malkovich and realizing that the screenwriter is probably the least popular person on a film set.
John Cage argued there was no longer any distinction worthy of note between music and theatre but we can be thankful that some composers have not thought it necessary to go along that road which would tend to deny music its place in the arts.
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