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Quotes About Avant-garde

I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.
~ Grimes
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
~ Karlheinz Stockhausen
movimiento Fluxus.
~ Philip Glass
In music, they're not endlessly rewriting Beethoven's 'Third Symphony;' in visual art, they aren't painting portraits of 16th-century royalty. Art moves forward.
~ David Shields
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
~ George Crumb
I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.
~ Kevin Costner
I don't use conventional voices for my compositions.
~ Himesh Reshammiya
I've said it since the day he made the sacrifice to hit the campaign trail: Voters crave the anti-status-quo politician. Everything about Donald Trump's campaign, it's avant-garde. He is crushing it in the polls.
~ Sarah Palin
Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.
~ Jonathan Krisel
To create and do something no one else has done before - that feeling beats anything else I've felt.
~ Dawn Richard
I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.
~ Oneohtrix Point Never
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.
~ Jasmine Guinness
What we were doing was alien in '92. We were less than immediately accepted by our fans and peers.
~ Black Thought
We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that.
~ Joseph Jarman
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
~ Barbara Sukowa
My father's rooms, as a child, were a very exciting place to be. Not only because of the beautiful models who were coming to be photographed for Vogue or The Sunday Times but also because of the very avant-garde furniture that he had made. He made designs for the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1969 at Caernarfon Castle.
~ David Linley
Mushy novels, pretty pictures, pretty sculpture, decorations on the wall, nice parallel lines - make me sick.
~ Eva Hesse
It's always been very important to me to try to do projects which are breaking new ground.
~ Naveen Andrews
Sometimes I'm in the mood to wear crazy stuff, like a shirtless look with a Saint Laurent suit.
~ Nick Young
All poetry is experimental poetry.
~ Wallace Stevens
The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism
~ Alain Frogley
The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks giving a bad conscience to the literature of mass consumption.
~ Alain Robbe-Grillet
I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules.
~ Dawn Richard