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When I first made the transition from a continuity
that I was directing, as it were, to one which I wasn’t directing,
I still
had a certain knowledge of the possibilities. And so, seeing that there
were some that would be pleasing, I did, at first, wish that they would
come up, rather than the ones I didn’t know were pleasing; I discovered
that they altered my awareness. That is to say, I saw that things I
didn’t
think would be pleasing were in fact pleasing, and so my views gradually
changed from particular ideas as to what would be pleasing, toward no ideas
as to what would be pleasing. . . .
John Cage
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