Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman
Morton Feldmanwas an American composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth12 January 1926
CountryUnited States of America
art pieces want
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.
art thinking play
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
art six moments
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
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.
finally handle life minor second
I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
memories recipes taste
I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!
country government australia
I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country
break understood
I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break
school houdini composition
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
musician
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.
caring careful suspicious
I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.
wipe
Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?
order play guitar
At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.
thinking people way
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