A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

Music is organized sound.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

Delusion is the seed of dreams.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse.

You gotta surround yourself with positive people, people who care.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.