Famous Quotes / Igor Stravinsky
14 Quotations by Igor Stravinsky
- 1. A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
- 2. Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my l ...
- 3. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is ...
- 4. I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false as ...
- 5. I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt li ...
- 6. Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
- 7. Just as an appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration.
- 8. My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of act ...
- 9. My music is best understood by children and animals.
- 10. Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
- 11. The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect fo ...
- 12. There is no force more potent than love.
- 13. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
- 14. What force is more potent than love?