It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.