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"If you listen to Beethoven or Mozart, you see they are always the same. But if you listen to the traffic, you see it is always different."

Let alone the controversy around John Cage's talent for composition. 

The inspiration I gained from him is his critical view towards what people took for granted.

As an untraditional musician, John stood up claiming that music is more than the composition governing by music theories.

Putting notes together by chance, needles directly interacting with piano strings, playing plants with a feather, water coming out of different containers, the sound of traffic or simply silence. Every sound or even no sound has its potential "musical" (here I think the definition of "musical" is different from what it is normally defined) value. 

What is music anyway?

 All humans are born biased, not only by our limited perception but also the traditional denotation of what we perceive. 

These limitations are also the termination of inquiries and restriction of possibilities.

Isn't it ignorant if one just shut his ears to whatever is not identified as musical?

Isn't it ridiculous if we just swallow everything that is being given instead of tasting for ourselves?

"A lady               from Texas             said:           I live in Texas           .

                                    We have no music      in Texas.                        The reason they've no

music in Texas                                                     is because                they have recordings

in Texas.                    Remove the records from Texas

                                    and someone            will learn to sing             .

                                    Everybody               has a song

                                    which is                               no           song at all:

                                    it is a process                of singing                      .

                            and when you sing                    ,

                                    you are                                where you are        ."