I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
I realized I liked being in the studio and working on translating the ideas into recordings.
I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.
I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.
A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.
You knew everybody at all the studios and you saw them often.
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.