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 Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos? — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share
