Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman
Morton Feldmanwas an American composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth12 January 1926
CountryUnited States of America
perfection tragedy music-is
The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
wanted
Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.