Avant garde Quote by Twyla Tharp

It's hard / Keeping up with the avant-garde.

— Phyllis McGinley

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

— Paul Valery

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

— John Cale

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Jeff Tweedy

Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being…

— Harmony Korine

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

The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.

— Ed Benguiat

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

— Damien Chazelle

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

— Ravi Shankar

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 like things that are avant-garde, but at the same time I can also go downtown edgy.

— EJ Johnson