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

Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.

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

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

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

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

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.