Avant-Garde Artists Quotes

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

I want people to know about these visionary artists. I want people to know what they stand for and (that) they are representing something unique, something fresh. I am just so excited about their careers.

It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen.

I liked anything that was a little bit weird, a little bit different. I always went for the psychotic, weird, 'dingey' bands.

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered.

I like all kinds of music but some of my all time favorites are P.I.L., Yoko Ono, T-Rex, and Anton Karas.

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono, The Black Poets. These people scare the hell out of most freaks. They laugh at Yoko Ono, but it's the whole cliché.