Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
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… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape,… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
