More from Morton Feldman

  1. After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.
  2. It appears to me that the subject of music, from Machaut to Boulez, has always been its construction. Melodies of 12-tone rows just don't h…
  3. ...The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.
  4. For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart.
  5. My teacher Stefan Wolpe was a Marxist and he felt my music was too esoteric at the time. And he had his studio on a proletarian street, on …
  6. [Regarding indeterminacy]'...I think this interest had to do with his interest in painting. He used to put sheets of graph paper on the wal…
  7. Quoted from a conversation with Victor Schonfield, director of 'Music now' in London, published in Music and Musicians, London, May 1969. […
  8. '...We met in 1950, through John Cage, when I was sixteen and he in his early twenties. We were all doing work that was clearly different, …

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