Old 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 STRAVINSKYThe one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
-
-
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Composition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Composers combine notes, that’s all.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
I 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 STRAVINSKY -
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Doomed 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 STRAVINSKY -
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
IGOR STRAVINSKY -
What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKY