All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAll you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
IGOR STRAVINSKYGood composers don’t borrow, they steal.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMoney may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo continue in one path is to go backward.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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 STRAVINSKYToo many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
IGOR STRAVINSKYSins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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 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 STRAVINSKYMusic is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
IGOR STRAVINSKY