Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now--perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?