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Dry Cleaner Inspirational Quotes (13)

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The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
Morton Feldman
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Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.
Morton Feldman
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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
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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
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I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.
Morton Feldman
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After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.
Morton Feldman
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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
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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.
Morton Feldman
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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
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The composer makes plans, music laughs.
Morton Feldman
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Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.
Morton Feldman
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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
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Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
Morton Feldman