“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.”

—  Morton Feldman

Quoted in Remembrance by Tom Johnson (September 1987)

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American avant-garde composer 1926–1987

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