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 STRAVINSKYComposition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
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 STRAVINSKYMusic’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKYInvention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOld age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
IGOR STRAVINSKYHarpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
IGOR STRAVINSKYLesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAn artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKY