Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

More Quotes by Morton Feldman

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste - now that's what I call memory!

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

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

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.