Quotes by Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

Helping Others

Jew

Psychiatry

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

Might

Piano

Typical

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.

Art

Gloves

Purpose

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

Wanted

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

Chairs

Rivals

Years

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

People

Thinking

Way

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

Australia

Country

Government

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!

Memories

Recipes

Taste

I’m not suspicious, I’m just careful.

Careful

Caring

Suspicious

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

Cages

Metaphor

Parables

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Art

Attitude

Australia

Cages

Careful

Caring

Chairs

Composer

Composition

Country

Gloves

Government

Helping Others

Houdini

Ideas

Interesting

Jew

Laughing

Memories

Metaphor

Might

Music Is

Musician

Parables

Patterns

People

Perfection

Piano

Plans

Procedures

Psychiatry

Purpose

Recipes

Rivals

School

Should Have

Structure

Suspicious

Taste

Thinking

Tragedy

Typical

Wanted

Way

Years

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Quotes by Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.

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

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.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.

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

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

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!

I’m not suspicious, I’m just careful.

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

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