Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor… - Morton Feldman

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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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Morton Feldman (12 January 1926 – 3 September 1987) was an American composer.

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Claude Debussy Igor Stravinsky Dmitri Shostakovich John Cage Walter Raymond Spalding

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Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

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

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

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

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