"Years ago I asked myself 'Why do I write music?'
An Indian musician told me the traditional answer in India was
'To sober the mind and thus make it susceptible to divine influences."
(John Cage, Silence)
An Indian musician told me the traditional answer in India was
'To sober the mind and thus make it susceptible to divine influences."
(John Cage, Silence)
"It is precisely in great art... that the artist remains inconsequential as compared with the work, almost like a passageway that destroys itself in the creation process for the work to emerge" (Heidegger).
"In music, too, collective powers are liquidating an individuality past saving, but against them only individuals are capable of consciously representing the aims of collectivity" (Adorno).
"In music, too, collective powers are liquidating an individuality past saving, but against them only individuals are capable of consciously representing the aims of collectivity" (Adorno).
"[One] is no longer an artist, he [or she] has become a work of art: in these paroxysms of intoxication the artistic power of all nature reveals itself to the highest gratification of the primordial unity" (Nietzsche).
"God is Harmony; he devotee who attunes himself will never perform any action amiss." (Autobiography of a Yogi)
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