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Morton Feldman on Music

1926–1987 United States

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

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.

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.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

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