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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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.
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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.
