Edgard Varese

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

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.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.