La Monte Young
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"La Monte Thornton Young" is an American avant-garde artist, composer and musician, generally recognized as the first minimalism (music)/minimalist composer. His works have been included among the most important and radical post-World War II avant-garde, experimental music/experimental, and contemporary music. Young is especially known for his development of drone music. Both his proto-Fluxus and "minimalism/minimal" compositions question the nature and definition of music and often stress elements of performance art.

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

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

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.

I'm so happy now that I have my own recording company because I don't have to have any arguments with people about what I'm going to release next.

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

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.

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