“Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration;… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music. [Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990]” — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“Recordings of Georgian folk polyphonic songs makes a great musical impression. They are recorded in a tradition of active reproduction of Georgian… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
