Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat 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.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.