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• I did cancel one performance in Holland where they thought my music was so easy that they didn't rehearse at all.
  And so the first time when I found that out, I rehearsed the orchestra myself in front of the audience of 3,000 people and the next day I rehearsed through the second movement -- this was the piece _Cheap Imitation_ -- and they then were ashamed....
• An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
  -- John Cage, compose...
• 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.
  -- composer John Cage, 1937...
• I don't know why people are frightened of the new ideas.
  I am frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage...
• I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
  I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage...
• Everyone is in the best seat. -- John Cage
• People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
  -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
• I'm saying nothing and I'm saying it -- John Cage