Miles Davis
“The thing to judge in any jazz artist,” said Miles, “is does the man project and does he have ideas.” I felt this was true of everything in life.
Tag: influences
John Cage
John Cage chose music, he said, because “The people who heard my music had better things to say about it than the people who looked at my paintings had to say about my paintings.”
Dashiell Hammett
Hammett’s stories were filled with unexpected turns yet had the inevitability of Greek tragedy.
His characters were nuanced to the point of complete moral ambiguity.
Marcel Duchamp
One of the most important collections of Duchamp’s works is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, just down the Expressway from where I was raised. I was a pre-teen with no significant art education, visiting the museum with my father, when we entered Gallery 182.