One’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 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 STRAVINSKYThe trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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 STRAVINSKYArt postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMoney may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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 STRAVINSKYI never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKY