
[Another aspect of that] music - Thursday Afternoon, things like that - is trying to capitalise on something that Cage opened up, which is to say: the act of listening is in fact an act of composing. Now, his extreme version of this was silence, where there is only an act of listening; there is no act of composing on his part, there's only an act of creative listening on your part, if you're lucky.
retirado da histórica entrevista de Brian Eno à Wired, de 1995: na íntegra aqui.