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

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.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

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.

I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

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.