Not that I have anything against music now, but I just hated being an anything. I don't know why.

- Charlemagne Palestine

I never became primarily a musician! I've always been a wanderer and I'm always bored.

- Charlemagne Palestine

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

- Charlemagne Palestine

I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-ter…

- Charlemagne Palestine

I 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 Palestine

There 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 divers…

- Charlemagne Palestine

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

- Charlemagne Palestine

I 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 si…

- Charlemagne Palestine

I played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my sounds were bathing them in all kinds…

- Charlemagne Palestine