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Top 20 Morton Feldman Quotes (2025 Update)

Morton Feldman Quote: “I’m not suspicious, I’m just careful.”

1. “I’m not suspicious, I’m just careful.”

— Morton Feldman

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Morton Feldman Quote: “I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break.”

2. “I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.”

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

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?”

4. “Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.”

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

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “The composer makes plans, music laughs.”

7. “The composer makes plans, music laughs.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.”

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

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.”

10. “The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.”

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

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange “abnormal” events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.”

12. “Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange “abnormal” events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment – maybe, say, six weeks – nobody understood art.”

13. “What was great about the 50s is that for one brief moment – maybe, say, six weeks – nobody understood art.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Morton Feldman Quote: “Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.”

15. “Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you’re lost.”

16. “If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you’re lost.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.”

17. “The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “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!”

18. “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

Morton Feldman Quote: “Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.”

19. “Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “No one has the Houdini school of composition.”

20. “No one has the Houdini school of composition.”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Morton Feldman Quote: “To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who’s ready to do that?”

22. “To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who’s ready to do that?”

— Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman Quote: “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.”

23. “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

Morton Feldman Quote: “Wonderful aphorism – but we can’t take refuge in aphorisms.”

24. “Wonderful aphorism – but we can’t take refuge in aphorisms.”

— Morton Feldman

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