Igor Stravinsky Quotes
Most popular Igor Stravinsky Quotes
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it.
If everything would be permitted to me, I would feel lost in this abyss of freedom.
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
The 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.
I 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.
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
