Cage always wanted to know what my structure was, if I had one. I often did have some sense of the time structure. Then he'd make a different one for the music.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
I love Nic Cage. He was so much fun to work with.
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.
I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.
At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.
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