In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.

I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness. I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.