Blixa Bargeld Quotes

The audience is the source of the energy that I project back to them.

When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

I first of all have a problem with the term 'avant-garde'. Because it is a military term, it means the guard that runs before the rest of the soldiers. And if I want to see myself presented in military terms, I don't want to be part of that. I want to be one of the deserters. I want to be in the woods, maybe.

When I started I didn't know anything about music. I came from an absolutely non-musical, non-artistic background.

I do have an honorary professorship in Poetics from the Vienna Academy of Arts. So I have not gone completely unnoticed

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.