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Morton Feldman Quotes
Morton Feldman
American
Composer
Born:
Jan 12
,
1926
Died:
Sep 3
,
1987
Call
Me
Memory
Music
Think
You
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Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
Morton Feldman
Music
Memory
Structures
Primitive
Built
Essentially
No one has the Houdini school of composition.
Morton Feldman
School
Composition
No-One
Houdini
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
You
Typical
Flute
Though
Kind
Boring
Piano
Combination
Call
Knows
Got
Arrive
Any
Crap
Might
Professional
Agree
Right
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
Me
Think
State
Unless
Flute
Know
Instrument
Hear
Person
Arts
Want
Plays
I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
Morton Feldman
Life
My Life
Living
Finally
Way
All My Life
Minor
Been
Handle
Found
Second
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
You
Woman
Memory
Complicated
Recipes
Once
Tell
Married
Eat
Could
Most
Call
Taste
Anything
Who
Now
Her
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