“I think I'm a lot happier than people might think from listening to my songs.” Quote by Thalia Zedek
“Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the protagonist in the songs.” InspirationSongHappeningsProtagonists Author:Thalia Zedek
“I don't think being a musician makes me a role model at all. But I do believe that I have responsibility to offer people a helping hand when and if I can, just the same way that others have helped me. I think that it's important to keep that cycle going, and to give back to whatever your personal definition of community is.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingBelieveI CanImportantHelpingHandsCommunityResponsibilityRolesOffersMusicianModelsDefinitionsCyclesRole ModelsGiving BackHelping Hand Author:Thalia Zedek
“I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.” MusicianBoredWanderers Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.” IfsLongWantedTermPaidProfessionLong Term Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.” CommunityMusicianSingersBrooklynGhetto Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.” KnowsHated Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“There are some people who love being a something, but I also got the gist in the 60's when I grew up that you could be, in the art scene, very diverse.” PeopleArtLove IsGrewSceneGrew UpDiverseGist Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!” PeopleIfsFirstsKindMadeProfessionHungHippie Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.” MadeDifferentFiveDisciplineTenFlipFlopping Author:Charlemagne Palestine
“I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.” PeopleWritingArtShowsLightFoundFunSoundDealsNew YorkStudentsBecomingPerformancesTerritory1960sHippieProvocativePerformance ArtNew TerritoryMultimedia Author:Charlemagne Palestine