Igor Stravinsky — "To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell."

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

"[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…"

"I am a classicist, not a romanticist."

"An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles."

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."