Some quotes I enjoyed while reading John Cage's book, Silence: "Beethoven now is a suprise, as acceptable to the ear as a cowbell." - John Cage "This end is just as important as the other end." - Schoenberg, while using an eraser of a pencil. "That is none of your business." - Schoenberg, answering a students request to explain his technique of twelve-tone composition. "Composing, if it is writing notes, is then actually writing, and the less one thinks it's thinking the more it becomes what it is: writing. Could music be composed (I do not mean improvised) not writing in pencil or ink? The answer is no doubt Yes and the changes are prophetic." - John Cage