“I’m not particularly interested in quality, and I’m certainly not interested in comparisons between things. I think that we gain, in awareness, by seeing each thing in its own terms and I think that if we think in terms of quality, that means that we are comparing the work which we experience with standards which represent our prejudices. Now if we can somehow empty our minds of those prejudices, then we possibly can approach our experience, whether it is in or outside art, for what it is — that is, to say, directly.”
— John Cage in an interview given in 1963
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