I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resul….

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead..

To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance on….

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses..

To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical accelerat….

The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants..

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness..

Music is geometry in time..

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead..