Quotes About Boundary-breaking

I guess one thing that makes my music stand out is that it is quite hard to determine what genre it is.

Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.

Art is original. Marcel Duchamp was an artist when he pioneered Dadaism and installed a urinal in a museum. The second person to install a urinal wasn't an artist, he was a plumber.

You can't really label me as a musician, a comedian, or a rapper - you know, it's different.

There's every other guitar player and then there's Chet. He transcended musical boundaries for more than fifty years. God only lays Chet Atkins on you once in a lifetime.

If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.

I've always tried to expand what heavy or loud music was and where it can go and what it can do.

Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.

Our time is a time to cross barriers, for erasing old categories — for probing around. When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised, put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result

It falls in all the cracks, from classical music to jazz,. Anywhere there's a hole in the floor, my music falls through it. But that's OK.

For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing what we are passionate about. We are so lucky that we can experience both worlds: the more intimate classical world and the wild and crazy world of rock n' roll.

I don't have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn't have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.

I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I'm a Renaissance woman or I'm a high-level madam. Lately I've been more comfortable saying I'm an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things.

Anne Imhof is a powerful artist from Germany making work that is totally interdisciplinary.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

All I'm interested in is liberating sound beyond all tradition.

Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far'--and when others follow, as they will, move on.

I think people have learned that Herbie Hancock can be defined as someone that you won't be able to figure out what he's going to do next. The sky is the limit as far as I'm concerned.

Try more things. Cross some lines.

He walks through social barriers and taboos as if they were cobwebs.

I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.