I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde'…

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that…

— Archie Shepp

I think my music is experimental, playful, challenging, focused, fun. I don't want it to be thought of as trying to appeal to a…

— Julia Holter

Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him.…

— Abbi Glines

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit…

— Sarah Thornton

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

— Ed Gillespie

In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a smoke signal that allows Bunny…

— Florence King

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

— Will Cotton

After so many years now, it's just suspected by most people that there simply is no way to change the direction Washington's going or…

— Rush Limbaugh

When government does, occasionally, work, it works in an elitist fashion. That is, government is most easily manipulated by people who have money and…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that…

— Isaac Asimov

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious…

— H.L. Mencken

I do believe that what I have called populist democracy is to be preferred to what I have called elitist democracy.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

For me, there has always been a disconnect with the sort of elitist structure of the high-art world - and my distaste for that…

— Shepard Fairey

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone.

— Richard Attenborough

If I had learned how to get along in the quotidian world while keeping up the search for the hidden realm, I might have…

— Jim Woodring