A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abs…

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between…

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

We live, but a world has passed away With the years that perished to make us men.