La Monte Young Quotations

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

Draw a straight line and follow it.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.