"At the same time, I was listening to……" — Henry Flynt
"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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17 Quotes by Henry Flynt
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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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I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested…
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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…
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The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.
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I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because…
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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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When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our…
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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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Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this…
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Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just…
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I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.
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A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.
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