I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.
Charlemagne PalestineI never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.
Charlemagne PalestineThere 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.
Charlemagne PalestineI had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.
Charlemagne PalestineI 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!
Charlemagne PalestineI 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.
Charlemagne Palestine