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.

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

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.