Art Quote by Steven Soderbergh

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

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 music isn't just a genre or sound. If it sounds good and makes you feel good it's a beautiful thing.

— DJ Khaled

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

— Ravi Shankar

I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.

— Amy Grant

To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that…

— Archie Shepp

I think that music opens portals and doorways into unknown sectors that it takes courage to leap into. I always think that there's a…

— Wayne Shorter

The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the…

— Andrea Bocelli

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found…

— Annie Lennox

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning.…

— Leonard Cohen

I use music as something from which I obtain some form of - I hate to use the word spiritual - guidance, an awareness…

— Richard Meale

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art…

— Franz Liszt