Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, ….

The future of music may not lie entirely in music itself, but rather in the way it encourages and extends, rather than limits the aspirations and ide….

My God! What has sound got to do with music?.

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity..

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance..

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole..

Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way..

In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pen….

Everyone should have the opportunity of not being over-influenced..

The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized.

I don't write music for sissy ears..

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man..

An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems ….

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience..

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man..

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that….

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's..