Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.
I don't know what will become of this piece. Our brave critics will no doubt charge me with imitating Ravel's Bolero. Too bad - this is how I hear war.
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.