Arto Lindsay Quotes

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.

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

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.

I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.

In the old days, maybe we'd come across Captain Beefheart, buy a record, go, 'This is great!' and notice how his music is evolving, changing, and becoming more complex, more radical. And we would follow that progression and see it reflected in the alternative culture it came from.

I've always been very progressive and as much as I play Old World music, I have this progressive tenacity to keep adding futuristic elements in subtle ways where you won't notice.

I like Philip Glass. I think he's made some really great contributions to his field. I love his style of playing - it's very loop-style.

I started playing guitar because of seeing Steve Vai.

I have always had an audience for my music, even in the very avant garde, crazy times.

I love The Edge's guitar style; it is unique. There is an ancient world resonating in his guitar sound.

John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.

David Harrington, who's the violinist and founder of Kronos, is a super open-minded and adventurous guy.

We wanted to be like Radiohead. When they started experimenting with electronic music, it gave us the idea that it might be a cool idea to do.

I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.

On 'Kaputt,' singer-songwriter Dan Bejar reevaluates his band's sound and drifts away from the David Bowie comparisons that have plagued even his best albums.

Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.

Jimi Hendrix is one of the main influences on why I wanted to play guitar. He really shook me. I think it was his whole style - the look and what he did with the guitar.