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Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

— Morton Feldman

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Do we have anything in music for example that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

If you don't have a friend who's a painter, you're in trouble.

To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.

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