Igor Stravinsky Quotes

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necess...

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

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' cha...

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

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that ...

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wh...

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false as...

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my l...

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

I have no use for a theoretic freedom. Let me have something finite, definite — matter that can lend...

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected w...

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things to move from an anarchic individualistic...

Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work lon...

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the...

What force is more potent than love?

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect fo...

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason f...

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and partic...

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

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is...

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is...

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.