Strike that balance
December 29, 2011
Don’t worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing… but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.
- Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter and composer
Work and the Artist
July 19, 2011
I use chance operations instead of operating
according to my likes and dislikes.
I use my work to change myself
and I accept what the chance operations say.
- John Cage (1912-1992), composer and philosopher, on his use of the I Ching to create a musical score
