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

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

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.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.