Experimental Music Quotes

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

  Edgard Varese

  Music, Writing, Done

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• Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.

  John Tilbury

  Humorous, Giving, Vitality

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• I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

  Ennio Morricone

  Real, Musical, Together

  "Mozart of film music". Interview with Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.

  Philip Glass

  Beach, Writing, Thinking

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• I wanted to make experimental music out of pop.

  Girl Talk

  Pops, Wanted

  Source: uproxx.com

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• You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I am improvising, but I don't think I'm experimenting. I have a problem with the whole term "experimental music."

  Z'EV

  Thinking, Problem, Enough

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.

  Philip Glass

  Real, People, Cages

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.

  Joanna Newsom

  Classical Music, Relation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

  Glenn Branca

  Rocks, Desire, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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