There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThere is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAn audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLook for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAn artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY