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.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.