Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.