What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is selective improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
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 STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKY