I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin.

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it.

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.

We have to fight the past to survive.

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.

Compassion is the highest form of love. Kindness is the best way to express love.

I don’t know what would I have done without you in this difficult time for me and indeed, you are right, things happen for a reason and even mistakes help us to be better.

There is no better exercise for strengthening the heart than reaching down and lifting up another.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

I like to draw my storyboards myself.

I have always been a House of Commons man.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.