Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKYHurry? I have no time to hurry.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKYDoomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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 STRAVINSKYThe faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOne’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKYInvention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
IGOR STRAVINSKY