Igor Stravinsky Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.”

“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.”

“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?”

“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.”

“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.”

“Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.”

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

“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.”

“I am an inventor of music.”