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I have found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you do not feel the passage of time as much. |
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I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.- John Barton
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I am not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I have truly paid my dues. I guess I am at a point now where I am more comfortable in my own skin.
I feel great. I feel younger. And I do not feel anything at all. I do not know who knows, but right now I am, how, how many years have I, fifty five, something like that. Forty three years old. And I feel like seventeen, like twenty five years ago.
Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.
