1960s Quote by Pauline Oliveros

The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool…

— Pauline Oliveros

The great countercultural movement that we all know from the mid-1960s was epitomised by popular music. But within a few years another shift happened:…

— Tony Robinson

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest…

— Evan Parker

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard…

— Brian Eno

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

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could…

— Brian Eno

In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or…

— Yoko Ono

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs,…

— M. Ward

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today…

— Joey Ramone

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

— Jeff Tweedy

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

— Gary Wright

The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a…

— Zac Hanson