Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

The present day composer refuses to die.

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.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

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

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.