Non-Traditional Music Quotes

OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things.

I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

I used to watch those rock videos where they would chainsaw the piano. And I thought, 'That's what I want to do.' I thought classical music was corny.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

I'm not necessarily a happy singer. That's not who I am as an artist.

The majority of the people think that noise is not music. I want to accept noise and even errors and glitches. I enjoy them.

I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

I'm trying to do different music, and I'm trying to be out of the box.

I think Thurston's and my weird tunings lent Sonic Youth a very different sound from the get-go. In the band's 30 years - aside from covers - there are maybe two or three songs we wrote using traditional tuning.

I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

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.

Ironically, my tastes aren't that experimental, and I wouldn't describe my music on the surface as being overtly experimental, either.

I spent my whole musical career trying to be different and make songs that people think shouldn't go together... go together.

Some want to do pretty songs with pretty words about pretty people, but that ain't me.

My voice is different, but I don't think I'm the only one with a different take on pop music.

Sometimes I don't want to be in the confines of what a band seems to provide.

I wanted to make a video for the holidays, but none of the traditional holiday songs were moving me.

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.

What's the big deal if I dress casually and dance in my backyard.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting interpretation!' I thought I was playing it right.

I was borderline deluded to think something as outrageous as Semi Precious Weapons could have been mainstream.