Piece Music Quotes 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…

— 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…

— Morton Feldman

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Morton Feldman

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

— Morton Feldman

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

— Morton Feldman

I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.

— 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…

— 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…

— Morton Feldman

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

— Morton Feldman

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

— Morton Feldman

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

— Morton Feldman

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

— 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…

— Morton Feldman