Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman
Morton Feldmanwas an American composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth12 January 1926
CountryUnited States of America
Morton Feldman quotes about
memories structure music-is
Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
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
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.
wanted
Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.
music memories ideas
It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't happen. They must be constructed. ... To demonstrate any formal idea in music, whether structure or stricture, is a matter of construction, in which the methodology is the controlling metaphor of the composition... Only by 'unfixing' the elements traditionally used to construct a piece of music could the sounds exist in themselves-not as symbols, or memories which were memories of other music to begin with.
helping-others psychiatry jew
After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.
art six moments
What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment - maybe, say, six weeks - nobody understood art.
attitude should-have ideas
To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.
years rivals said
For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.