Letter: Woody Guthrie x John Cage 

"In 1947, Maro Ajemian, for whom 'Sonatas and Interludes' was written, recorded the prepared piano solos from Cage’s 'Amores'. One evening that summer, folk legend Woody Guthrie wrote a fan letter to the Disc Co. of America, as he listened to the scratchy 78 rpm disc. “I need something like this oddstriking music”, he began in the postscript, “to match the things I feel in my soul tonight”. (The singer also wrote that that morning, his wife, Marjorie, had “given birth to a big 7-pound boy” – Arlo)" (daqui)

"John Cage. A wolf in sheep's clothing. Not my aphorism, but the epithet of Michael Finnissy, a composer who worked with Cage and who deeply admires him, but who suggests that the Cageian legacy is something that needs deconstruction as well as celebration. Behind that beatifically smiling visage, the charming prophet of (apparent) freedom, egolessness and openness, there could lurk a more conventionally controlling figure, a creative spirit just as fiercely rigorous and as conscious of his own significance as any of the other titans of the 20th century"(aqui)