About La Monte Young:
La Monte Thornton Young is an American avant-garde artist, composer and musician, generally recognized as the first minimalist composer. His works have been included among the most important and radical post-World War II avant-garde, experimental, and contemporary music. Young is especially known for his development of drone music. Both his proto-Fluxus and "minimal" compositions question the nature and definition of music and often stress elements of performance art.
I think the fact that I created something and had an enormous influence is indisputable.
La Monte YoungI have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.
La Monte Young