Art Quote by David Longstreth

Popular music was this abstraction - an abstraction that I was relating to immensely but was ultimately far away.

— Kelela

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But…

— Igor Stravinsky

For me, music is pure abstraction.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

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 well known…

— Henry Flynt

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

— Brian Eno

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

— Jeff Tweedy

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract.

— Leo Ornstein

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of…

— Serj Tankian

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

— John Cale

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

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

— Shankar Mahadevan

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

— Lucinda Childs