When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it’s self-defeating. Henry Flynt Read Quote
I was a student at Harvard, and that’s where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. Henry Flynt Read Quote
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms. Henry Flynt Read Quote
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn’t know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway? Henry Flynt Read Quote
When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. Henry Flynt Read Quote
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. Henry Flynt Read Quote
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person’s taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. Henry Flynt Read Quote
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten. Henry Flynt Read Quote
Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it. Henry Flynt Read Quote
