VDP on “Wall Street” and Wall Street
Van Dyke Parks: “The Creed Is Greed, in a nation dominated by stone-age fundamentalism.”
Van Dyke Parks, “the epic opportunity”
“I have lived through McCarthyism, through riots with race at the core. I have seen dark times, but nothing to match the complacency, materialism, triviality, and Stone Age beliefs that dominate our current state of affairs. So I turn to the epic opportunity — the song form. Songs interest me that much.”
On "American music"
Van Dyke Parks quoting Aaron Copland