Avant garde Quote by Brian Eno

I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece…

— Steven Soderbergh

I don't think all music that is considered 'avant-garde' is bad, but it's definitely elitist. I hope my music is not that.

— Julia Holter

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

— Ravi Shankar

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

— Jeff Tweedy

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

My more risky or avant garde music is not that well known to a wider audience, but I wish it was.

— Ennio Morricone

When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.

— Twyla Tharp

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

— Tommy Mottola

Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an…

— Carl Jung

Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being…

— Harmony Korine

We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.

— Anonymous

What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff…

— Van Morrison