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
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The purpose of writing music is to make music. The purpose of art is to make art. The purpose of life is to live a life worth living. If you believe that, then why do we take things so seriously? We do because we can’t help it. It’s what we do.

Source: Silence: Lectures And Writings

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