A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authenti…

John Cage
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A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is. ✨ Pierre Boulez, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, John Cage, Robert Samuels (1995). The Boulez-Cage Correspondence, p.107, Cambridge University Press
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