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• The present day composer refuses to die.
• I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must…
• Music is organized sound.
• Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments…
• I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
• Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will…
• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing…
• 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…

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