Igor Stravinsky

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

What force is more potent than love?

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.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.