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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

I always had wished somebody else would sing my songs, but there wasn't anybody who knew them, so I sang them myself and eventually became a better singer and guitar player.

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.

I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.

My sense of humor tends toward both the dark and the absurd - two great tastes that, in my opinion, taste great together.

Both parties want it now. They want comprehensive immigration reform, and they want open borders.

In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.

Shortly, the public will be unable to reason or think for themselves. They'll only be able to parrot the information they've been given on the previous night's news.