I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

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I have a picture of an ideal consciousness.

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I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

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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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Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

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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.

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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 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 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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