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> [What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/what-was-great-about-the-50s-is-that-for-one-brief-moment-maybe-say/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

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## More by Morton Feldman

> [The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/the-most-interesting-aspect-for-me-composing-exclusively-with/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/art-in-relation-to-life-is-nothing-more-than-a-glove-turned-inside/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/since-music-has-never-had-a-rembrandt-we-have-remained-nothing-more/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/any-professional-knows-that-the-flute-and-the-piano-is-a-boring/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/for-me-it-s-the-instrument-if-i-want-to-think-of-a-flute-and-the/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/for-years-i-said-if-i-could-only-find-a-comfortable-chair-i-would/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/most-music-is-metaphor-but-wolff-is-not-i-am-not-metaphor-either/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/i-m-not-suspicious-i-m-just-careful/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/i-want-to-give-my-compliments-to-australia-ever-since-your-government/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/i-never-feel-that-my-music-is-sparse-or-minimalist-the-way-fat-people/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/if-you-think-you-might-have-secret-information-listening-to-me-you-re/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/i-ve-been-living-with-the-minor-second-all-my-life-and-i-finally/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [No one has the Houdini school of composition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/no-one-has-the-houdini-school-of-composition/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/the-tragedy-of-music-is-that-it-begins-with-perfection/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

> [It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/morton-feldman/it-appears-to-me-that-the-subject-of-music-from-machaut-to-boulez-has/)

[Morton Feldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/morton-feldman/)

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