Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Rob Haskins <>]

It might be that Cage said that on the documentary, Vitor, but Andrew's right—the person who actually said it was Shizuko Yamamoto, in response to a question Cage asked on whether he had to be strict about observing the macrobiotic diet. Cage can be forgiven for forgetting who said what in 1990 (which is when I believe that documentary was made).

Rob

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:19 PM, <> wrote:

I have not seen the Greenaway doc in years so I don't recall the scene. But it might have been a slip on his part, or he was saying Shizuko.

In any case, I heard the story several times over the years, and the story is about Yamamoto.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Vitor Rua <>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:48:15
To: Andrew Culver<>
Cc: john saylor<>; Silence<>
Subject: [silence] Re: Re: Re: Hmmmm

hello,

he said (John cage) that it was suzuki his master that said:  "when
you're with friends, you can have
>
>> a potato." it´s on the peter greenway documentary...

best
vítor rua


On Aug 30, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Andrew Culver wrote:

> Hi John
>
> I believe the potato quote paraphrases Shizuko Yamamoto
>
> On 29-Aug-11, at 10:47 AM, john saylor wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 19:05, Andrew Culver <
>> > wrote:
>>> Birth of Jesse James (possibly the most famous outlaw in American
>>> history):
>>> Sept. 5, 1847
>>> 65 years to the day before our friend.
>>
>> and 65 after:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazr_Mohammed
>>
>> and ...
>>
>> --
>> \js [http://or8.net/~johns/] : "when you're with friends, you can
>> have
>> a potato." -j.cage paraphrasing y.ono
>>
>

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