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 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 wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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 STRAVINSKYThe 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 STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA good composer does not imitate; he steals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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 STRAVINSKYThere is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSilence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
IGOR STRAVINSKYComposition is frozen improvisation.
IGOR STRAVINSKYFilm 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 STRAVINSKYIs it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
IGOR STRAVINSKYI knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
IGOR STRAVINSKY