In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.

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.

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 rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

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

The present day composer refuses to die.

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