Quote: 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]
Quote: What force is more potent than love? [Igor Stravinsky]
Quote: Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. [Igor Stravinsky]
Quote: Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? [Igor Stravinsky]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: A good composer does not imitate; he steals. [Igor Stravinsky]
Quote: Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. [Igor Stravinsky]