I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.
A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.