More - Igor Stravinsky Quotes

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

Igor Stravinsky

 Talent

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Igor Stravinsky

 Russian Composer

Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning

Igor Stravinsky

 Action

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Igor Stravinsky

 Forgiveness Russian Composer

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares

Igor Stravinsky

 

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

Igor Stravinsky

 

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.

Igor Stravinsky

 Present Russian Composer

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust

Igor Stravinsky

 

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

Igor Stravinsky

 Music Russian Composer

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

Igor Stravinsky