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…

- Arthur Honegger

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…

- Arthur Honegger

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

- Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

- Arthur Honegger

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

- Arthur Honegger

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

- Arthur Honegger

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

- Arthur Honegger

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…

- Arthur Honegger

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

- Arthur Honegger