Igor Stravinsky
» Cinema » “Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
» Love » “What force is more potent than love?”
» Love » “Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?”
» Mistakes » “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.”
» Music » “Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”
» Music » “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.”
» Music » “A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”
» Present » “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.”
» Sin » “Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.”
