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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who... →
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting... →
The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the... →
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of... →
I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.
I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about... →
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual... →
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up... →