Our Business In Living Is To Become

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.

There Will Always Be Critics Eager To Fashion Opinions For The Lazy And Incapable.

What Is The Purpose Of Writing Music? One Is, Of Course, Not Dealing With Purposes But Dealing With Sounds. Or The Answer Must Take The Form Of A Paradox: A Purposeful Purposeless Or A Purposeless Play. This Play, However, Is An Affirmation Of Life--not An Attempt To Bring Order Out Of Chaos Nor To Suggest Improvements In Creation, But Simply A Way Of Waking Up To The Very Life We’re Living, Which Is So Excellent Once One Gets One’s Mind And One’s Desires Out Of Its Way And Lets It Act Of Its Own Accord.

Food, One Assumes, Provides Nourishment; But Americans Eat It Fully Aware That Small Amounts Of Poison Have Been Added To Improve Its Appearance And Delay Its Putrefaction.

All Great Art Is A Form Of Complaint