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

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

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

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

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.

The present day composer refuses to die.

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