Quotes: Morton Feldman

"When he did find the time to compose, Feldman employed a strategy that John Cage taught him – it was "the most important advice anybody ever gave me," Feldman told a lecture audience in 1984. "He said that it's a very good idea that after you write a bit, stop and then copy it. Because while you're copying it, you're thinking about it, and it's giving you other ideas. And that's the way I work. And it's marvellous, just wonderful, the relationship between working and copying." 

–– Morton Feldman (1926-1987), American composer 

Source: Mason Currey. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013; p. 15. 

via Commonplace Book 2013-2014, 2014, p. 107.