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Music Quotes by Morton Feldman
- Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?
- 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 minimalist…
- Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
- Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
- The composer makes plans, music laughs.
- To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?
- To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human…
- Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.
- 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 happen.…
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