Igor Stravinsky

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

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

"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."

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