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

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

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

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

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.