Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole….

For me, curiosity is life. If you are not curious, you are in your coffin..

More and more I find that in order to create effectively one has to consider delirium and, yes, organize it..

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria..

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music..

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous..

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed..

Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropri….

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography..

Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary..

We need to restore the spirit of irreverence in music..

I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed..

We have to fight the past to survive..

The function of pop music is to be consumed..

All art of the past must be destroyed..