Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living. - Igor Stravinsky

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos? - Igor Stravinsky

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. - Igor Stravinsky

What force is more potent than love? - Igor Stravinsky

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. - Igor Stravinsky

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. - Igor Stravinsky

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. - Igor Stravinsky

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

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. - Igor Stravinsky

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