[quoted in the Orange County Register, 12/22/91] I have never claimed to be Miss Hip and I never tried to appeal to an avant-garde audience with a green streak in my hair, a bag over my head and songs about living couches. Some entertainers lose their way...
Sheena Easton
About her performance as Euripides`s Medea on stage: If one does theatre, it`s to show human beings. They`re not gods. In Euripides, that`s clear. He was an avant-garde writer. Medea is a little like a Hitchcock film. The gods have decided what everybody ...
Isabelle Huppert
I don`t mind Hollywood. After all, I don`t make movies that are like avant garde or not understandable. I just like to make a mainstream movie with all the edges that existed in the writing and I don`t like to see it flattened out in order to cater to aud...
Kevin Costner
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.
Robert Morgan
It`s very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.
Andy Partridge
I`ve always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.
Robert Wyatt
I was a student at Harvard, and that`s where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
Henry Flynt