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What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done...
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Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way…
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I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground,…
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Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.
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When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from…
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When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who…
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I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after…
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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
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It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and…
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There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and…
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I…
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When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I…
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Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must…
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from…
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I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were…
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Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.
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The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were…
— Henry Flynt
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Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a…
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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