Experimental music Quotes

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and…

— Glenn Branca

The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton]…

— Philip Glass

I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and…

— Philip Glass

You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I…

— Z'EV

I wanted to make experimental music out of pop.

— Girl Talk

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must…

— Edgard Varese

Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion,…

— John Tilbury