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 1 Share Now -
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? - Igor Stravinsky 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
