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

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.

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.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

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

Music is organized sound.