"To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ā¦ not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ā¦ except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ā¦ if you're into it."
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Quoted in a 1976 interview, published in Desert Plants by Walter Zimmermann.
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Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman (12 January 1926 ā 3 September 1987) was an American composer.
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