The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music. — 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
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it. — 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
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
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
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“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
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man… — 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
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the… — 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
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — 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
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly… — 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
