I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician. — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored. — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry. — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions. — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
