Igor Stravinsky — "I never look back. I am always looking forward."

"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."

"My whole life has been a flight from the past."

"Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3."

"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."

"All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols."