He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

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.

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

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.

Talking about pollution, nobody's holy.They who pollute, sinned against nature.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

I prefer to make my living honestly.

One day is worth a thousand tomorrows.

He [Donald Trump] makes himself look like an idiot every single day.

A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages

Halt Halt," said Gilan stepping out into the open.

The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

If you honestly believe that," said Thorne, stowing the gun again, "then you really don't recognize true value when you see it.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.