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“I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.”

Quote by Robert Barry

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Robert Barry is an American artist known for his contributions to conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s. His work often involves exploring the boundaries between art and everyday life. more

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“I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did encourage me, but they never really pushed me into anything, really.”

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“I took art courses, only in the sense that I was able to - I took art classes, which were fun, which I liked, but it was a - just a kind of a general education that I got, a regular academic - academic diploma, but I kind of had the feeling that art was something that I really liked the most but I wasn't really sure that that was it.”

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“I was also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.”

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“I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.”

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“I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.”

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“I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.”

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“I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.”

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“So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.”

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