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.

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

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

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.