Quotes by 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...

#Igor Stravinsky

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious...

#Igor Stravinsky

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

#Igor Stravinsky

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of...

#Igor Stravinsky

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

#Igor Stravinsky

My music is best understood by children and animals.

#Igor Stravinsky

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things,...

#Igor Stravinsky

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

#Igor Stravinsky

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

#Igor Stravinsky

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer...

#Igor Stravinsky

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

#Igor Stravinsky