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.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

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

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

Music is organized sound.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

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

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

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.

Here's the thing about people who believe in god... They're idiots.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of artists working together, nobody ever says no to me when I ask to work with them.

Sometimes moving on takes effort. Sometimes moving on is harder than it looks.

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.