Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man
Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it’s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully
Then, after the war it was impossible to travel, after so many years of Hitler and Stalin.
I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind.
But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
When I'm angry I'm an incredibly tough person, because I don't get angry easily.
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.