Igor Stravinsky Quotes

"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 in Music quotes.

"Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning."
-Igor Stravinsky in Inspiration quotes.

"My music is best understood by children and animals."
-Igor Stravinsky in Music quotes.

"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 in Music quotes.

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament."
-Igor Stravinsky in Music quotes.

"In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?"
-Igor Stravinsky in Love quotes.

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

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

"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."
-Igor Stravinsky

"What force is more potent than love?"
-Igor Stravinsky

"My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey."
-Igor Stravinsky