What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.


as quoted in "Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music", January, 1996; ISBN 0819563110

John Cage Quotes

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So ...

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So ...

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So ...

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So ...