Avant garde Quote by Pat Metheny

Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of…

— Archie Shepp

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

— Jeff Tweedy

I'd rather call it "instrumental creative music," especially the music that I've been doing. If a person would hear that music, they would undoubtedly…

— Eldar Djangirov

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 think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear…

— Lianne La Havas

If we reject the word, or any word that labels music, what's left? That's the question we should all ask ourselves. Ben Ratliff asked…

— Vijay Iyer

Genres are just names.

— Jimmy Iovine

No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.

— Stromae

You want to embrace what the idea of pop music is. Not necessarily the stereotype of pop music; there was a time when you'd…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

— Debbie Harry

Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

— Debbie Harry

I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and…

— Dianne Reeves