44 Quotes by Morton Feldman

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

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!

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

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

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.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.