John Cage Quotes:
Ocupation: Composer
Life: September 5, 1912 - August 12, 1992
Birthday: September 5
Death: August 12
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.
source: John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.28, Wesleyan University Press
topic: Views, Sound, Doe, Morphology
