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"We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
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"Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before."
"You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!"
"Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities."
"So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music."
"The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening."
"But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith."
"Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression."
"When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything."
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