Avant Garde Quotes - Page 6

• I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.

  George Lucas

  Character, Tone, Cinema

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• I love to work with Julia [Holter] because our voices have a similar timbre, and she's very unique. She finds very avant-garde harmonies that I adore.

  Linda Perhacs

  Unique, Voice, Harmony

  Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Mean, Never Change, Changed

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Artist, Trying, Interest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms.

  Ray Bradbury

  Being Yourself, Fun, Eye

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Wall, Past, Escaping

  "Ligeti" by Alex Ross, www.therestisnoise.com. June 12, 2000.

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• Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it

  Thurston Moore

  Real, Taken, Play

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• The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.

  Edward Albee

  Fun, Block, Thinking

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