Morton Feldman citations

Morton Feldman, né le 12 janvier 1926 dans le Queens et mort le 3 septembre 1987 à Buffalo, est un compositeur américain. Il est particulièrement connu pour ses pièces instrumentales qui furent souvent composées pour des groupes inhabituels d'instruments. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. janvier 1926 – 3. septembre 1987
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Morton Feldman: Citations en anglais

“If you don't have a friend who's a painter, you're in trouble.”

Cited as having said that to John Cage in 1952 in Begin Again: A Bibliography of John Cage by Kenneth Silverman, p. 96 https://books.google.com/books?id=i11wgznLRZIC&pg=PA79&hl=pl&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=true.

“The composer makes plans, music laughs.”

Quoted in Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman, ISBN 1878972316.

“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 Fourteenth Street and Sixth Avenue.... He was on the second floor and we were looking out the window, and he said, "What about the man on the street?"”

At that moment . . . Jackson Pollock was crossing the street.
Quoted in in "AMERICAN SUBLIME : Morton Feldman's mysterious musical landscapes", by Alex Ross. in The New Yorker (19 June 2006)

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

Quoted in in "AMERICAN SUBLIME : Morton Feldman's mysterious musical landscapes", by Alex Ross. in The New Yorker (19 June 2006)

“Sound is all our dreams of music. Noise is music's dreams of us.”

Sound Noise Varese Boulez, in Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music http://books.google.pl/books?id=FgDgCOSHPysC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA15&focus=viewport, edited by Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner. A&C Black, 2004. p. 16 http://books.google.pl/books?id=FgDgCOSHPysC&pg=PA16&lpg=PA15&focus=viewport.

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

Quoted in Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman, ISBN 1878972316.

“…The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.”

Quoted in a May 1976 interview, published in Studio International (November 1976) pp 244-248.

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

Quoted in a 1976 interview, published in Desert Plants by Walter Zimmermann.

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