I love cage so much. He's such a spirit and a happy person. His piano pieces such as in a landscape and dream are something that can prove HE'S A VERY TALENTED ONE.
John Cage 1912 - 1992 American Composer, Music Theorist, Writer, Philosopher, Artist, Poet, Expert on Mycology and Brilliant Chess Player. A Very, Very Clever man!
For those who think Cage a charlatan, it is important to see that the irreverence he expressed toward music and art is balanced by a complete reverence for what we might call the spirit of the things of this world. It may take a great composer to offer grand and colorful gestures of novel sonic organization, but Cage, in applying such intensity to the curious effects of water in a conch shell, or to sounds of a cactus meeting a feather, is his own specie of greatness. If we think he is placing these sounds on the same pedestal we place the composers of the great colorful gesture, we are likely to regard him as a charlatan. But he is not placing them on a pedestal. The sounds are standing on their own.