The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

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 music is best understood by children and animals.

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.