The piece is not actually silent [there will never be silence until death comes which never comes]; it is full of sound, but sounds which I do not think of beforehand, which I hear for the first time the same time others hear. What we hear is determined by our own emptiness, our own receptivity; we receive to the extent we are empty to do so. If one is full, or in the course of its performance becomes full of an idea[…], then it is just that.
John Cage, responding to a detractor of 4’33”, recalled by Christian Wolff (from the same post at Crow with No Mouth)
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