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

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.

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.

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

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.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine