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Morton Feldman has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and…
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I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me…
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Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?
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Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested…
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At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by…
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I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break
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The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another,…
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Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind…
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For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a…
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I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't…
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I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting,…
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We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.
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I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.
— Jean Reno
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are…
— Jacques Barzun
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It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.
— David Foster
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I would love, more than anything, to do an out-and-out farce with huge physical energy. Just because you're from the minimalist school,…
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I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't…
— Morton Feldman
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In general I don't like definitions, but 'Minimalist' is a term that means elegance and openness, so I would prefer to be…
— Ludovico Einaudi
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It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
— Dwight Yoakam
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I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
— Kanye West
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I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.
— The Edge
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This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
— Kanye West
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Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.
— Gianni Versace
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I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.
— Gordon Willis
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