Quotes by : Igor Stravinsky

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living....

Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long....

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for....

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

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for....

Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all....

Childhood - a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with....

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is....

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is....