Archie Shepp Quotes

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

Being associated with songs that push boundaries is amazing. If the rest of my career consists of a majority of songs that are experimental, I'll be a happy man.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

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.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

I like to think of my style as pretty versatile. And I'd like whatever I record to reflect that to be mostly genre - to be just something that people want to listen on to see what I'm going to come up with next. That's the kind of music I'm into.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.

People like Jeff Buckley, the Mars Volta and Bjork made me listen to music differently. You learn the voice is an instrument you can do crazy things with.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

I don't use conventional voices for my compositions.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

I listen to a lot of different music. I have a really open ear when it comes to music in general. I like everything. You have to. You have to know your history and learn everything you can, you know?

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

I like to experiment when it comes to music.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

I don't want to write the same song over and over again.

What I felt as a singer is that music and cultural contents are the biggest strengths that go beyond language and go to any country in the world.