Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. -Igor Stravinsky Music
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? -Igor Stravinsky Alone
The 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 Stravinsky Music
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 Music
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. -Igor Stravinsky Truth
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. -Igor Stravinsky Romantic
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. -Igor Stravinsky Respect
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. -Igor Stravinsky Wisdom
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. -Igor Stravinsky Music
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 Relationship
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore 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. -Igor Stravinsky Family
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. -Igor Stravinsky Music
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. -Igor Stravinsky Knowledge
