Morton Feldman

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. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#flute #hear #i #instrument #know

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. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#consider #fat #feel #i #minimalist

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. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#compliments #country #dollars #ever #few

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! ↗

— Morton Feldman

#call #complicated #could #eat #her

I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#finally #found #handle #i #life

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

— Morton Feldman

#listening #lost #me #might #secret

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#essentially #memory #music #primitive #structures

No one has the Houdini school of composition. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#houdini #school

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

— Morton Feldman

#more #music #musicians #never #nothing