Wise Words from Phillip Glass

Culture is everything: culture is the shirt you're wearing, culture is the food you eat, culture is the newspapers that you read. Culture is any product of the collective mind and of the individual mind. It's all interesting, it's all valuable.
Someone like Richard (Aphex Twin) is a very interesting young man - he didn't have the benefit of a classical education so he makes up for it in other ways. He makes upfor it in ingenuity, in his ability to dream and imagine. To think that he needs to take a course in harmony to write music is an absurd idea. Paul Simon can't read music. Now you tell me, who do you think is more important: some professor of music at Yale University or Paul Simon?

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