Igor Stravinsky

Conductors’ careers are made for the most part with ‘Romantic’ music. ‘Classic’ music eliminates the…

I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it…

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal…

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

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too…

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and…

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits…

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never…

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing…

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