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

The present day composer refuses to die.

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.

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

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 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.