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

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

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

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.

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

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

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.