Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

- Morton Feldman

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

- Morton Feldman

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

- Morton Feldman

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for t…

- Morton Feldman

Most music is metaphor, but Wolff is not. I am not metaphor either. Parable, maybe. Cage is sermon.

- Morton Feldman

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 ha…

- Morton Feldman

I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- …

- Morton Feldman

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

- Morton Feldman

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than ano…

- Morton Feldman