17. THE END OF SILENCE
265
“There’s no such thing”
: Richard Kostelanetz,
Conversing with Cage,
2nd ed. (Routledge, 2003), p. 65.
265
“Good people of Woodstock”:
David Revill,
The Roaring Silence
—
John Cage
:
A Life
(Arcade, 1992), p. 166.
265
“Now, Earle”:
Kyle Gann,
No Such Thing as Silence
:
John Cage’s
4’33” (Yale University Press, 2010), p. 191.
266
“an act of
framing”: Ibid., p. 11.
266
“let sounds be just sounds”
: John Cage,
Silence
:
Lectures and Writings by John Cage
(Wesleyan University Press, 1973), p. 70.
266
“It begged for a new approach”:
Gann,
No Such Thing as Silence,
p. 11.
266
“Art is a sort of experimental station”
:
Cage, Silence,
p. 139.
266
“absolutely ridiculous”
: Gann,
No Such Thing as Silence,
p. 15.
267
“John Cage was the first composer”
:
Morton Feldman Says
:
Selected Interviews and Lectures, 1964–1987,
ed. Chris Villars (Hyphen, 2006), p. 183.
267
“John, I dearly love you”
: Cage,
Silence,
p. ix.
267
“Noted for
: being
radical”
: Thomas S. Hines, “‘Then Not Yet “Cage” ’: The Los Angeles Years, 1912—1938,”
in John Cage: Composed in America,
ed. Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman (University of Chicago Press, 1994), p. 78.
268
“Much of our of boredom”
: John Cage,
I—VI
(Wesleyan University Press, 1997), p. 9.
268
“not much different from not being”
: Kostelanetz,
Conversing with Cage,
p. 280.
268
“He was open, frank”
: Carolyn Brown,
Chance and Circumstance
:
Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham
(Random House, 2007), p. 81.
268
“Don’t you ever parrot”:
Ibid., p. 104.
268
“cheerful existentialist”: John Cage: An Anthology,
ed. Richard Kostelanetz (Da Capo, 1991), p. 146.
269
“One of the greatest blessings”
: Ibid., p. 48.
269
“People would lie in wait”
: Hines, “‘Then Not Yet “Cage,”’” p. 74.
269
Cage seems to have been the only American pupil
: “String Quartet Plays at Composer’s Party,”
Los Angeles Times,
Jan. 6, 1937.
270
“I believe that the use of noise”:
Cage,
Silence,
pp. 3—4.
270
“I decided to use only quiet sounds”
: Ibid., p. 117.
270
“to sober and quiet the mind”
: James Pritchett,
The Music of John Cage
(Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 37.
270
“art imitates nature”
: Gann,
No Such Thing as Silence,
p. 93.
270
“haunting and lovely”:
Ross Parmenter, “Ajemian Plays Work by Cage, 69 Minutes,”
The New York Times,
Jan. 13, 1949.
271
Silverman … rightly emphasizes
: Kenneth Silverman,
Begin Again
:
A Biography of John Cage
(Knopf, 2010), pp. 267-74.
272
“improperly”
: Brown,
Chance and Circumstance,
p. 266.
272
“It is because of his specifications”
: Lydia Goehr,
The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works
:
An Essay in the Philosophy of Music
(Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 264.
272
“to its purest, scariest peak”:
Richard Taruskin,
The Danger of Music and Other Anti-Utopian Essays
(University of California Press, 2009), p. 272.
272
“Listening to or merely thinking”
: Gann,
No Such Thing as Silence,
p. 198.
272
John Adams
…
describes
: John Adams,
Hallelujah Junction
:
Composing an American Life
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), pp. 56—61.
273
“You mean he got
paid
for that
?”: Gann,
No Such Thing as Silence,
p. 12.
273
$24.15 a month in rent
: Ibid., p. 14.
273
“I wanted to make poverty elegant”
: Kostelanetz,
Conversing with Cage,
p. 212.
274
“the twenty-four kinds”:
Silverman,
Begin Again,
p. 168.
274
“[A] monk was walking along”:
John Cage,
A Year from Monday
(Wesleyan University Press, 1967), p. 135.
275
“For two hundred years the Europeans”:
Revill,
The Roaring Silence,
p. 283.
276
“We would do well to give up the notion”:
Typescript reproduced in the exhibition catalogue
The Anarchy of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art,
ed. Julia Robinson (MACBA, 2009), p. 268.
277
Cagemusicircus:
See Alex Ross, “John Cage Tributes,”
The New York Times,
Nov. 7, 1992.
278
“When one dies with this world”:
Pages of Merce Cunningham’s diary supplied by Laura Kuhn, John Cage Trust.
278 “
I couldn’t be happier”:
From Elliot Caplan’s 1991 film
Cage/Cunningham
.