Quotes By Igor Stravinsky

• Truth

  I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know...

• Romantic

  Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music....

• Relationship

  Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that...

• Music

  The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that...

• Music

  The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to...

• Life

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

• Knowledge

  I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes...

• Family

  A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy...

• Loneliness

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