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.

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.

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.

Football is the ballet of the masses.