I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

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

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

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

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

What force is more potent than love?