Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss. John Cage More Quotes by John Cage More Quotes From John Cage Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music. John Cage following sound needs A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself. John Cage views sound doe I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment. John Cage mean ideas thinking Out of the work comes the work. John Cage work My work became an exploration of non-intention. John Cage exploration intention I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. John Cage i-am saying nothing poetry When we separate music from life we get art. John Cage get music life art
