Quotes by Robert Morris

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

I know enough jazz harmony to do something already, but to really play something with other people that would be suave and cool.

I liked counterpoint because of the way that things went together. That was interesting because the musical elements were separable and then you could warp all of these lines and times and spaces into each other and put voices together. That was a different kind of experience from harmony and I was very affected by it, too; I was escaping the boundaries of space and time.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

When composers say that music is a temporal art, I think that's true, but what is most fun in music is when you know that there are connections that are non-temporal. You can compare them with the unfolding of the piece again - you can compare the drama of the unfolding with the relationships that you remember.