I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

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

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

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

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