In the summer he will have completed a year's residence in Berlin on the German Academic Exchange, which annually invites painters, writers and musicians. Now I know the reason for all those German masterpieces. Life in Germany is so boring. You have to write masterpieces to keep interested. Feldman is a generous talker.
Art is distraction.
Like playing cards. An untalked of problem in music today is the interval. A young composer came to me, very worried about the intervals in his music. The function of the interval is just to extend the composition. When I told him that, he was so relieved.