Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

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.

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.

My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

Somehow, I went from being too young, to being too old. Somewhere in there I must have been just right.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

I'm not saying Martha Stewart is old, but she needs a new Walker more than the 'Fast and Furious' franchise.

If there is a will, there is always a way my friend

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.