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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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
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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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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
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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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Bread for today is bread enough.
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Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee.
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A short-term economic stimulus to help lift us out of this economic slowdown has to be followed by business tax credits and smart investments to sustain longer-term growth.
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There was of course that other thing, that power that had been given him of taking hold of an evil situation, wrestling with it, shaking it as a terrier shakes a rat until the evil fell out of it and fastened on himself. Then he carried the evil on his own shoulders to the place of prayer, carried it up a long hill in darkness, but willingly. Each time he felt himself alone, yet each time when the weight became too much for him it was shared, then lifted, as though he had never been alone. Even it there had been no hope of help he would still have been just as willing.
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When people who are close to me say that they see positive changes in me as I grow, it makes me work harder on myself. Life always surprises us with something new, and I want to be capable enough to handle it.
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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.
