A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

Nothing more than nothing can be said.

As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.