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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.
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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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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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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.
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I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.
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In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.
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Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
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When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.
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When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
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Category: Artist Quotes
Occupation: Artist
Date of Birth: April 24, 1909
Nationality: American





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