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

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.

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.

You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

Wolves are the witches of the animal world.

There is a simplicity to war. Attacking is the only secret. Dare- and the world yields. How quickly they forget that all it takes to change the course of history... is the will of a single man.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.

I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice.

Every journey begins with a single step.

At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.