Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

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.

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

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.

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.

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