John Cage Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• I believe the use of noise to make music will increase until we reach a
  music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make
  available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard.

  John Cage

  Believe, Musical, Sound

• Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

  John Cage

  Music, Art, Mind

  "Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind". Book by John Cage, 2007.

• The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

  John Cage

  Purpose, Operations, Accord

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.55, Wesleyan University Press

• What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.

  John Cage

  Writing, Order, Play

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