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

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

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.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

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

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

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.