• The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.

    Cornelius Cardew: The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.
    Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”