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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record Folie A Deux in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

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I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.

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The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

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