Igor Stravinsky — "I never compose anything that I don't thoroughly understand."

"One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles."

"Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times."

"[Charles Ives] was exploring the 1960s during the heyday of Strauss and Debussy. Polytonality; atonality; tone clusters; perspectivistic effects; chance; statistical composition; permutation; add-a-pa…"

"To listen is an effort, and a creative effort. The listener now becomes a performer."

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