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.

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

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

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.

No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.

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