Avant garde Quote by Archie Shepp

Music is a thing where, the more vocabulary you gather, the more you can express yourself.

— Eldar Djangirov

Avant-garde, jazz, pop, classical, country and western, rock, free, straight-ahead, etc. are ultimately meaningless terms in the face of the music being discussed at…

— Pat Metheny

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

— Anthony Braxton

Music is a gestalt. Songs are a life force and they have specific vocabulary to them. You hear a few notes, and they take…

— Alan Menken

Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.

— Aaron Copland

Music has its own internal logic. It is like the logic of a dream, clear in its own terms but not necessarily in everyday…

— Tamas Vasary

You have a history of art-music that you equate with music. That's what I love about that term art-music. It separates itself from music-music,…

— Frank Fairfield

What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning is the…

— Andrew W.K

Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age…

— Samuel Pepys

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

— Gwenno

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of…

— Nadia Boulanger

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and…

— Sufjan Stevens