Zdroj: [Unterberger, Richie, Petr Ferenc, White Light / White Heat: Velvet Underground den po dni, Volvox Globator, Praha, 2011, 20, 978-80-7207-821-9, 364]
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Originál: (en) I wasn’t interested in propagating the culture of musical composition as a professional undertaking. Whereas people like Philip Glass and Steve Reich and La Monte Young, they studied composition and wanted to be big composers. I wanted to end composing, get rid of it. I wanted it to die out.
Zdroj: [Robin, William, Tony Conrad Was Such a Good Minimalist, He Was Almost Forgotten, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/arts/music/tony-conrad-was-such-a-good-minimalist-he-was-almost-forgotten.html, 2017-03-24, 2017-03-25, The New York Times, anglicky]
Originál: (en) You don’t know who I am, but somehow, indirectly, you’ve been affected by things I did. I don’t mind being anonymous though. I hate celebrity. When you walk down the street and people want to know this and that, it’s horrible.
Zdroj: [Beaumont-Thomas, Ben, 'People thought we were on drugs – and we were!' … Tony Conrad, the great avant-garde adventurer, http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/22/people-thought-we-were-on-drugs-and-we-were-tony-conrad-the-great-avant-garde-adventurer, 2016-03-22, 2016-04-10, The Guardian, anglicky]
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Tony Conrad cited in: Jean-Michel Maulpoix (2005) A Matter of Blue Vol 92-94. p. 35.