What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo continue in one path is to go backward.
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 STRAVINSKYA good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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 STRAVINSKYHarpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
IGOR STRAVINSKY