I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('composing in real time') with nothing predetermined. I've had a lot of experience playing many different kinds of music and several different instruments, and since I tend not to waste anything, it all shows up somewhere in the music I'm playing now.
I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the c… - Richard Grossman
I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the c…
- Richard Grossman
Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional nov… - Richard Grossman
Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional nov…
You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperiali… - Richard Grossman
You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperiali…
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines. - Richard Grossman
I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.
I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism. - Richard Grossman
I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.
I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value. - Richard Grossman
I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. - Richard Grossman
When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.
I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the ti… - Richard Grossman
I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the ti…
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plot… - Richard Grossman
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plot…
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