Morton Feldman Quotes

• We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

  Morton Feldman

  Recuerde

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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 of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap

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  Piano, Typical, Might

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• The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

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  Perfection, Tragedy, Music Is

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• 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 being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

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  Attitude, Should Have, Ideas

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• Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

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  Feelings, Events, Abnormal

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• The composer makes plans, music laughs.

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  Laughing, Composer, Plans

  Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

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• El arte en relación con la vida no es más que un guante vuelto del revés. Parece tener las mismas formas y contornos, pero nunca puede utilizarse para el mismo fin. El arte no enseña nada sobre la vida, como la vida no nos enseña nada sobre el arte.

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  Art, Purpose, Gloves

  Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

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

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  Years, Rivals, Chairs

  Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

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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, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others

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  Interesting, Patterns, Procedures

  Morton Feldman (1985). “Essays”

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• Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

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  Memories, Structure, Music Is

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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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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  Break, Understood

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• What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.

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  Art, Six, Moments

  Morton Feldman (1985). “Essays”

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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 to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.

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  Loss, Simple, Drawing

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

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  Ready, Be You

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• 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. They must be constructed....To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition...Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves--not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.

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  Music, Memories, Ideas

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music" by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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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 in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

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  Art, Sound, Pieces

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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

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  Limpie

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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

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  Thinking, Secret, Listening

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• After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

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  Helping Others, Jew, Psychiatry

  Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

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

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  Cages, Metaphor, Parables

  Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

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• Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

  Morton Feldman

  Se busca

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

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  Músico

  Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

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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 consider myself minimalist at all

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  Pensamiento, Gente, Camino

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• En un momento dado [Cardew] aprendió a tocar la guitarra simplemente para participar en la interpretación de una composición de Boulez, que es un poco como decir que aprendió danés para leer a Kiekegaard.

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  Guitar, Order, Play

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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 vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me

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  Art, Thinking, Play

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