I Like Being Moved. I Don't Like

It Was At Harvard Not Quite Forty Years Ago That I Went Into An Anechoic [totally Silent] Chamber Not Expecting In That Silent Room To Hear Two Sounds: One High, My Nervous System In Operation, One Low, My Blood In Circulation. The Reason I Did Not Expect To Hear Those Two Sounds Was That They Were Set Into Vibration Without Any Intention On My Part. That Experience Gave My Life Direction, The Exploration Of Nonintention. No One Else Was Doing That. I Would Do It For Us. I Did Not Know Immediately What I Was Doing, Nor, After All These Years, Have I Found Out Much. I Compose Music.

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.

Composing For The Prepared Piano Is Not A Criticism Of The Instrument. I'm Only Being Practical.

I Needed Another Basis For Musical Structure. This I Found In Sound's Duration Parameter, Sound's Only Parameter Which Is Present Even When No Sound Is Intended.

Everything We Do Is Music." (classical Composer)(from: 4'33")