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We do not hear what we hear ... , only what we remember.
— Morton Feldman
Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?
— Morton Feldman
Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.
— Morton Feldman
Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.
— Morton Feldman
I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break
— Morton Feldman
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
— Morton Feldman
Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
— Morton Feldman
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person
— Marcus Fabius Quintilianus
To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?
— Morton Feldman
It's the only choices we have. You eliminate everything, and whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the answer.
— Kim Harrison
Anyone who'd spent a childhood waiting for the other foot - or the other fist - to fall knew how to sense danger.
— Rob Thomas
Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
— Morton Feldman
The composer makes plans, music laughs.
— Morton Feldman
The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
— Morton Feldman
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
— Morton Feldman
One winter night, at his home, while he was stirring up the logs in his fireplace, he muttered, "Computers are irrelevant." Building
— Tracy Kidder
I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.
— Morton Feldman