Peter Max

Artist

1937-10-19

Quotes by Peter Max

• The '60s were an amazing time.

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• Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.

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• I grew up in Shanghai 'til I was 10 or 11, with one year in Tibet. When I was 5 or 6 years old, the American radio station came to Shanghai, and I used to love bebop and jazz, but I didn't know where it came from.

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• I know colors like some people know a melody. And the tunes of my favorite musicians energizes me when I work.

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• I met Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when I hung out with Michael Lang just before the Woodstock Festival. They were as charismatic in person as they were on stage.

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• I do not view myself as a psychedelic person but as a yogi. Although most link the Beatles with bringing awareness of yoga to the public, it was myself who actually brought yoga into the mainstream in the United States.

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