Tony Conrad Quotes
7 Tony Conrad quotes:
"I've talked with John Cale for two decades about what to do about La Monte, and how to get copies of our work."
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"The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex."
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"As soon as Young read my statements and saw clearly what I was saying, he stopped communicating with me."
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"But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication."
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"What kind of conversation are we having here? I think anybody reading this expects us to be having a very informal kind of exchange."
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"That kind of piece, perhaps most recognizable because of Yoko Ono's similar work, built a bridge between performance art and music - and without raising any awkward social issues."
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"People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the "text" in literary terms."
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