Morton Feldman Quotes

I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country.
Morton Feldman

Government, Give, Country

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.
Morton Feldman

Boring, Might, Though

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.
Morton Feldman

Person, State, Hear

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all.
Morton Feldman

Music, Fat, Consider

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!
Morton Feldman

Woman, Tell, Her

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
Morton Feldman

Life, Living, Found

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.
Morton Feldman

Lost, Secret, Might

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
Morton Feldman

Music, Memory, Built

No one has the Houdini school of composition.
Morton Feldman

School, Houdini

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.
Morton Feldman

Music, Nothing, Since

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.
Morton Feldman

Others, Another, Takes

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: January 12, 1926

Died: September 3, 1987

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