Igor Stravinsky — "I know that the public will not understand my music. But I don't care. I write f…"

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

"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."

"My music is cheap. It's my name that is expensive."

"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. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strengt…"

"I adore children. They are the only people who are truly free."