Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa-Lobos? Igor Stravinsky Read Quote
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. Igor Stravinsky Read 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 Read Quote
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. Igor Stravinsky Read Quote
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. Igor Stravinsky Read Quote
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky Read Quote
