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

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Source : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”

Morton Feldman

“I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.”
“I've done everything I want to do and gone everywhere I want to go.”

Source : "Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent'". Interview With Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2013.
“Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.”
“A lie is like a cat: you need to stop it before it gets out the door or itâ€™s really hard to catch.”
“We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.”

Source : National Review magazine, September 1, 1997.
“All paintings are abstract ideas, not representations of a true reality.”
“There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“I'm hard-nosed about luck...If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost always make your own fortune.”

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