There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.

It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

I am an inventor of music.