Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.