Quotes About Experimental Music

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Joanna Newsom

#4. 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

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

Ennio Morricone

#6. 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

#7. Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.

Thurston Moore

#8. I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

Harvey Pekar

#9. Tell me,
what is it you plan to do
with your one
wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

#10. I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

Adam Lambert

#11. I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.

Harry Lloyd

#12. I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

Harry Shearer

#13. The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

Sxip Shirey

#14. In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

Sxip Shirey

#15. Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.

Maya Beiser

#16. A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They never told me to be quiet, turn the music down or anything like that. So I felt pretty free and experimental as a kid to kind of figure out my own voice.

Tori Kelly

#18. My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

B.o.B

#19. The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

Edward Dyson

#20. In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Serj Tankian

#21. We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.

Michael Adam Hamilton

#22. I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

Squarepusher

#23. Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

Brad Delson

#24. Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!

Mary Engelbreit

#25. My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

Mayer Hawthorne

#26. Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Leonard Bernstein

#27. My friends and neighbors were always fixing their cars. Soldiers who felt restless wanted to work on something, and they understood cars. Me, I like to look at cars but I was never really a mechanic.

Edward Ruscha

#28. I've grown up playing pop music for the experimental crowd and I always feel like I'm pushing something weird on people. I had this underdog feeling. It's crazy that all of a sudden I'm the overhyped band you read about on the blogs.

Girl Talk

#29. In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

Bill Laswell

#30. I didn't want to make a record that's just drones or completely experimental. A lot of the time bands that make this psychedelic style of music are just a bunch of dudes hanging out together and jamming.

Tamaryn

#31. I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.

Erika M. Anderson

#32. I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.

Peter Gabriel

#33. Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?

Fred Frith

#34. I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?

Nicolas Cage