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"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 it."
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"I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time."
"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."
"I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made."
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"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 were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did."
"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 dictator."
"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
"Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten."
"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 terms."
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