Igor Stravinsky — "I am a creature of habit, but I am also a creature of change."

"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?"

"My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles."

"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading."

"We in Russia have our Trotskys, and I myself should be highly annoyed if anyone were to take them for authentic Russians."

"To continue on one path is to go backward."