44 Quotes by Morton Feldman

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

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

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

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

To understand what music has to be, you have to live for music. Who's ready to do that?

We do not hear what we hear..., only what we remember.

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

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.

I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.