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.
I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.
I also like Western classical music and jazz.
I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
Art music is an evolving matter, and so are a lot of cities.
We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.
Serious music usually doesn't pay.
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.
I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.
I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage... I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art.
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
I didn't like any British music before The Beatles. For me, it was all about black American music. But then I became a successful pop singer, even though the kind of music I liked was more elitist, which is what I'm trying to get back to.
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.
The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.
The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.
I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.
