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What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

~Adrien Brody

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I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

~Alan J. Pakula

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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

~Archie Shepp

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I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

~Autre Ne Veut

Topics: Avant-Garde Backing Cool Could Flop Format Glass Hard Like Monk Music New People Philip Pop Pop Song Pop Songs Really See Song Songs Terry Top Totally Tracks Trying Use Write

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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

~Bat For Lashes

Topics: Around Avant-Garde Communicate Coolness Everyday Just My Own Own Person Pool Roll Want

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I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Avant-Garde Because Boring Frustrated Hides Highly Incomprehensible Itself Often Real Real World The Real World Think World I Think

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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

~Brian Eno

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Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

~Brian Greene

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There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

~Bruno Heller

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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

~Camille Paglia

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