Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman
Morton Feldmanwas an American composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth12 January 1926
CountryUnited States of America
helping-others psychiatry jew
After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.
memories structure music-is
Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
art six moments
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
attitude should-have ideas
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.
years rivals said
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.
cages metaphor parables
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
ready be-you
To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?
remember
We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.
thinking secret listening
If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.
perfection tragedy music-is
The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
interesting patterns procedures
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
feelings abnormal events
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.
art purpose gloves
Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.
piano might flutes
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