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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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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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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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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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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You got to be able to love again. You got to give everybody a fair chance. Everybody deserves a fair chance. I'm talking about building that wall, coming out of a relationship and feeling like, well, I'm going to hold back. You turn into your ex. When you find a person that's worth letting your wall down , and you feel it in your stomach, just don't fight it. Just let it happen.
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We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
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In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.
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Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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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.
