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.

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

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

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.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

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.