Grew Quotes by Charlemagne Palestine

I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my sounds were…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.

— Charlemagne Palestine

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or…

— Charlemagne Palestine

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

— Charlemagne Palestine

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

— Charlemagne Palestine

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

— Charlemagne Palestine

I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in…

— Charlemagne Palestine

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

— Charlemagne Palestine

There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you…

— Charlemagne Palestine

For Jewish people, salmon has a special meaning, not just because it's a flavor we've had all along our diaspora. Salmon also have this…

— Charlemagne Palestine