Carolina 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 that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

John Cage Connected to the Carolinas

Source

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

year
1996

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“What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I of…” John Cage. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-6292041851. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/6292041851

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