A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

Football is the ballet of the masses.