I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

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

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

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.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.