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

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

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.

Those who have ears to hear, will hear

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

Football is the ballet of the masses.