Morton Feldman Quotes
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.
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I can't say anything I don't love about Seattle.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Repeating is harder than anything else.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
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Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
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Above anything else, I hate to lose.
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From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
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Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.
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How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.
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Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.
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Let's say I'm at a party and I don't like the feeling I'm getting, I'll just leave. Why do I have to be there?
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Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.
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A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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We live in a world defined by its boundaries: You cannot travel faster than the speed of light. You must and will die. You cannot escape these boundaries. But the miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.
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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
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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.
