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Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (French: [ɛdɡaːʁ viktɔːʁ aʃil ʃaʁl vaʁɛːz]; also spelled Edgar Varèse; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.

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

Born, Children, Inspirational, Keep, Minutes, People

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

Changing, Groups, Idea, Ideas, Sound, Split

There are two infinities: God and stupidity.

God, Infinities, Infinity, Stupidity, Two

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.

Art, Gossip, Merely, People, Tell, Work

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. 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.

Alphabet, Dream, Italian, Mean, Music

I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.

Done, Experiment, Experimental, Make, Music, Writing

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Ahead, Artist, Belief, Contrary, People

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.

Adequate, Conceive, Handicapped, Men, Music, Writing

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.

Attained, Complacency, Goal, Having, Men

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

Alone, Expression, Infuse, Mean, Science

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

Eye, Eyes, Jurisdiction, Mediocrity, Men

No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.

Art, Discrepancies Between, Discrepancy, Original, Progress

I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.

Begun, Given, High, Important, Use, Want

Music is organized sound.

Music, Music Is, Organized, Sound

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

Art, Certain, Clumsiness, Like, Work