“I’m not saying, ‘Do whatever you like,’ and yet that’s precisely what some people now think I’m saying… The freedoms I’ve given [in a musical score] have not been given to permit just anything that one wants to do, but have been invitations for people to free themselves from their likes and dislikes, and to discipline themselves… The highest discipline is the discipline of chance operations. The person is being disciplined, not the work.” -John Cage on his use of chance in composition. Kostelanetz p102