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 intensit….

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes..

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity..

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena..

Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest ….

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment..

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art..

No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this dis….

In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystalli….

Music is organized sound..

The present day composer refuses to die..

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

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 de….

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs..

I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting the….

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity..

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it wit….

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direc….

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 t….

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

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 co….