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Morton Feldman Quotes

1926–1987 United States

Morton Feldman (12 January 1926 – 3 September 1987) was an American composer.

United States
Composers

Also known as: Feldman, Morton

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Do we have anything in music for example that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

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

To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.

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.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

...The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Morton Feldman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.