Football is the ballet of the masses.

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.

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

He fell like a chicken into the soup.

I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.

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

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.