When Schoenberg told John Cage that he couldn't pursue his current path and that he would hit his head against a wall, Cage replied that he would proceed even if it meant he must hit his head against that wall. "Would you like to join a society called Capitalists Inc.? (Just so no one would think we were Communists.) Anyone joining automatically becomes president. To join you must show you've destroyed at least one hundred records..."

• John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, 1949. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9YHdTNnwMM