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Music is organized sound.

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

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

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

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

The present day composer refuses to die.

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

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

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

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

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

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.