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

— Morton Feldman

Cited as having said that to John Cage in 1952 in Begin Again: A Bibliography of John Cage by Kenneth Silverman, p. 96 https://books.google.com/books?id=i11wgznLRZIC&pg=PA79&hl=pl&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=true.

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American avant-garde composer 1926–1987

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