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Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

John Cage

School, Passing By, People

John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.55, Wesleyan University Press

Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

John Cage

School, Passing By, Musical

Silence (1961)

We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

John Cage

Music, School, Two

"Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 1990.