Music is organized sound.

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

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

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

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

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

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.