La Monte Young Quotes

Biography
Type: Composer
Nationality: American
Born: October 14, 1935

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.
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I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
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I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.
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