I never feel that my music ... by Morton Feldman, an American Composer

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“I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all.”

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Morton Feldman

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Name: Morton Feldman

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jan 12, 1926

Date of Death: Sep 3, 1987

Profession: Composer

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Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

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

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I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.

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The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

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For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.

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