Dustin

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4'33", pronounced "four minutes, thirty-three seconds", (Cage himself referred to it as "four, thirty-three") is often mistakenly referred to as Cage's "silent piece". He made it clear that he believed there is no such thing as silence, defined as a total absence of sound. In 1951, he visited an anechoic chamber at Harvard University in order to hear silence. "I literally expected to hear nothing," he said. Instead, he heard two sounds, one high and one low. He was told that the first was his nervous system and the other his blood circulating. This was a major revelation that was to affect his compositional philosophy from that time on. It was from this experience that he decided that silence defined as a total absence of sound did not exist. "Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot," he wrote. "One need not fear for the future of music."

"But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of a priest for the sake of gain, and, in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive anything more destructive to morality than this?"
Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason

"The next statement is false. The previous statement is true."

"My music is not a vehicle for improvisation, a showcase for the prowess of it's performers, a means to an end. I believe the means of the music is the end." - Lily Maase

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
-Frank Outlaw

"Education covers a lot of ground, but it won't cultivate any of it."

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. -Richard
Bach

Music:

The Ruins, Hella, Faraquet, Rumah Sakit, Crime in Choir, At the Drive In, Refused, Isotope 217, Volta Do Mar, El Guapo, Blonde Redhead, The Arcade Fire, Tortoise, Lightning Bolt, Mars Volta, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Rush, Secret Chiefs 3, Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses, Magma, Univers Zero, King Crimson, Dead Kennedys, NOFX, Bad Religion, Face to Face, Crass, The Descendants, Primus, Screeching Weasel, No Means No, Poovalur Srinivasan, Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussain, U. Srinivas, Ramnad Krishnan, Trichy Sankaran, Ali Akbar Khan, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Shakti, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Max Roach, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Oscar Peterson, Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Sun Ra, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Michel Petrucciani, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Art Blakey, Pharoah Sanders, Crusaders, Beastie Boys, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Nile, The Nels Cline Singers, The Cure, Ministry, Thrill Kill Kult, Fugazi, Jawbreaker, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, Dismemberment Plan, Black Sabbath, Kraftwerk, New Order, Joy Division, The Pixies, Bogdan Raczynski, Tabla Beat Science, J.S. Bach, Bela Bartok, Iannis Xenakis, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Sergei Rachmaninov, Sonic Youth, Harry Has a Head Like a Ping Pong Ball, Dave Brubeck, Koenjihyakkei, Johnny Cash, Ninja Academy, Weezer, Antibalas, The Paperchase, Frank Zappa, The Fantomas, ELP, Acid Mothers Temple, Mr. Bungle, Genesis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Masada (John Zorn), Lily Maase, Deerhoof, Devo, Fred Frith, David Axelrod, The Residents, Dillinger Escape Plan, Marcus Miller, MMW, Georg Philipp Telemann, Vivaldi, Branford Marsalis, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky, L. Subramaniam, Stan Getz, Can, Antibalas, JFJO, The Police, Billy Cobham, Archers of Loaf, Yaya3, Sonny Rollins, Oingo Boingo, Mark Deutsch, Eric Dolphy, Neurosis, Mel Lewis, Brian Blade Fellowship, Bad Brains, The Mercury Program, Earl Harvin Trio, McCoy Tyner, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Olivier Messiaen, John Cage, Cecil Taylor, Astroid! Power Up, Henry Cowell, Milton Babbitt, George Crumb, 8 Bark, Spiral Architect, Noah Baerman, The Meters, Joshua Redman, Jim Hall, Ahmad Jamal, George Russell, Morton Subotnick, Yes, Gentle Giant, An Albatross, Beethoven, Comets on Fire, TV on the Radio, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Brian Eno, Arvo Part, The Flaming Lips, Donovan Stokes, Pat Metheny, Chano Dominguez, Parallel Realty, Lily Maase, Weather Report, Spy Vs. Spy, Dura Mater, Guapo, Henry Cow, Iron Butterfly, Bondage Fruit, OOIOO, Electric Light Orchestra, Plastic People of the Universe, This Heat, The Boredoms, Masada, Polk Street Jazz

Movies:

Brazil, Suburbia (1984 version), Baraka, Latcho Drom, Naqoyqatsi, Zentropa, Straw Dogs, Il Postino, A Night on Earth, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, and recently The Pursuit of Happyness

Television:

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Books:

Heroes:

Danger Mouse