Music Quote by Simon Reynolds Download Open image ““The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.”” — Simon Reynolds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Music
“O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?” — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
“ avant-garde , adj. This was after Alisa' show, the reverse-blackface rendition of Gone With the Wind , including songs from the Empire Records… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
“Wasn't modernism's greatest coup to destroy the notion of progression? And yet it still comes back in history books, in dialectical materialism, in the… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
“I always feel the greatest bliss when I recollect those I have caught in my snares, for they generally are insolent, and so self-conceited… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
“My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois” — Jan Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Why are we here? Well, we're peaking up the skirt of the ineffible now, and the answer is hidden by the poetic panties of… — Tony Vigorito Copy Share Image
“I think, if one is a true art lover, he can't stick to a particular genre. Art knows no partitions, no boundaries.” — SaketKr Copy Share Image
“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Not only has there never before been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its immediate past, but there has never before… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“(Mind you, according to Walter Benjamin, the twentieth century’s great philosopher of collecting, browsing and what we’d now call vintage shopping, ‘the non-reading of… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“He revels in all the empowering conveniences that the iPod offers, like being able to ‘correct’ albums by removing their weak tracks (even on… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“The downside of shuffle soon revealed itself, though. I became fascinated with the mechanism itself, and soon was always wanting to know what was… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“old music these days. He explained that the industry divided releases up into ‘current’ (which spanned from day one of release to fifteen months… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Jungle's sound-world constitutes a sort of abstract social realism; when I listen to techstep, the beats sound like collapsing (new) buildings and the bass… — Simon Reynolds Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I'm at the edge of the world, Where do I go from here? Do I disappear? Edge of the world, Should I sink or… — Bring Me The Horizon Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story. — Hubert Laws Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Downloading's the same as what I used to do. I used to tape the charts of the songs I liked [off the radio]. I… — Liam Gallagher Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was 10 years old and always had a penchant for rhyming. I started listening to hip hop through… — Hoodie Allen Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.' — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time. — Stromae Copy Share Image
