John Cage

I did a big essay about John Cage and Postmodernism and despite disliking essay-writing, I really liked learning about John Cage.

Just hearing him speaking is enough to change the way you think about sound and music, you almost don't have to hear his music. In class we watched a documentary about him and he said something that blew my mind that I keep thinking of and referring to it. He said, "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." This quote can be applied to anything, I even find myself applying it to situations  or people that I judge badly. Then I think, "Why can't this be beautiful too, because this is the way that things are and that people are."