Charlemagne Palestine Quotes

• Me divertían mucho los espectáculos de luces y los espectáculos multimedia de los hippies. Eso fue cuando era estudiante, en los años 60, y estaba en New York, así que aprendí a manejarme con la escritura, a grabar el sonido de otras personas, el arte de la performance... porque era un territorio nuevo, y me gustaba todo lo que fuera nuevo y provocador. Eso me interesaba más que convertirme en algo concreto.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Art, New York, Fun

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

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Bored, Musician, Wanderers

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• Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Hated, Knows

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• I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Player, Piano Music, Trying

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• around 1977 I became very ... negative, I began to do things unconsciously that I didn't understand, and they were very sabotagistic and I didn't know what I was doing. I was pissing everybody off, I was breaking my bridges. I was hostile to people, I was doing performances and insulting people there - I was doing whatever I could to destroy whatever world I had created ten years before, without knowing, really, why

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Years, Bridges, Knowing

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

  Carlomagno Palestina

  People, Asian, Bells

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• 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 it's never been especially long-term.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Long, Term, Wanted

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• 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.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Animal, Feelings, Divinity

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• 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 special return-to-their-roots desire. At the end of their lives, salmon try to swim back to when they were born. Even if they can't, they have this obsession. We as diaspora people love that a lot about salmon.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Roots, People, Swim

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• 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 bathing them in all kinds of dissonance, consonance, resonance, and things like that.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Jobs, People, Sound

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• Hay gente a la que le encanta ser un algo, pero yo también entendí en los años 60, cuando crecí, que se podía ser, en la escena artística, muy diverso.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Art, Love Is, People

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• My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Religious, Ears, Music Education

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• 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.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Ghetto, Community, Musician

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• 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 synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  New York, Israel, Cities

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• 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.

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Discipline, Different, Flip

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• 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 have to declare any profession!

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Hippie, People, Firsts

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

  Carlomagno Palestina

  Pieces, Cry, Ashamed

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