John Cage’s question of taste is curiously liberating. It helps to gently soften our rote opinions and view of ‘ugly’, making us see more possibilities.
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Give Up Judgments, Substitute Poetry (John Cage + Rilke)
We read this astonishing line in John Cage’s ever-illuminating A Year From Monday. SUCH a good idea. We are starting our week giving up judgments….for….this……
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John Cage’s Transformative “Question of Taste”
You can open John Cage’s A Year from Monday anywhere and find a snippet that will turn your head around. Like this clarifying view of TASTE, and the opinions about style that are so much a part of modern life:
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John Cage: Saying YES to Unpredictability
We opened the John Cage’s enduringly great A Year from Monday and found this extraordinary set of questions*: How immediately are you going to say Yes to no matter what unpredictability, even when what happens seems to have no relation to what one thought was one’s commitment? The kind of YES he’s talking about is full committment:
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