This business about being flung out of paradise is his gift to me. I'm glad I got out it was getting too hot in there.
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Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.Morton Feldman
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Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.
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For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.
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If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.
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