The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

No man his the master of his fate.

I always have someplace else I’d rather be, even if I don’t know where that is, yet.

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.

I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.

The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

I don't want to hurt you," he said. "Too late.

Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.