Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.

My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.

In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.