Voice of John Cage (1912-1992) 
Excerpt from an interview in 'Listen’ (Écoute), a film by Miroslav Sebestik, 1992

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When I hear what we call music
It seems to me that someone is talking
And talking about his feelings or about his ideas of relationships

But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic, here on 6th Avenue for instance,
I don’t have the feeling that anybody is talking
I have the feeling that sound is acting

Sound is acting 
And I love the activity of sound

What it does is
It gets louder and quieter
And it gets higher and lower
And it gets longer and shorter
It does all these things
Which I’m completely satisfied with
And I don’t need sound to talk to me

It gets louder and quieter
And it gets higher and lower
And it gets longer and shorter
And I don’t need sound to talk to me

Sound is acting 
And I love the activity of sound

Sound is acting 
And I love the activity of sound

We don’t see much difference between time and space
We don’t know where one begins and the other stops

There are two things that don’t have to mean anything
One is music and the other is laughter

Don’t have to mean anything, that is
In order to give a us very deep pleasure

You know that 
Don’t we?

you know that

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