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.
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.