I do not write experimental music, […] I offer a ‘finished product’; it is for the audience, when they hear it performed, to make the experiment of confronting a new work.
- Edgard Varèse as quoted by Ken Hollings in The Wire Magazine Issue #314 (via pantsetc — check out the awesome varese vids he just put up. that ionisation vid is one of the best things on the internet.)
