Igor Stravinsky quotes

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.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

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.

I am an inventor of music.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

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.

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.

What force is more potent than love?

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

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.