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An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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 for which I now conceive my music.
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... (more Edgard Varese quotes)
| Edgard Varese by Fernand Ouellette and D. Coltman | |
| Edgard Varese by Alan Clayson | |
| New Worlds of Edgard Varese: Papers and Discussion from a Varese Symposium at the City University of New York (I.S.a.M. Monographs, No. 11.) by Elliott Carter, Sherman Van Solkema, Wen-Chung Chou, and Robert P. Morgan |