Quotes by : Igor Stravinsky

He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things to move from an anarchic individualistic....

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change....

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

What force is more potent than love?

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

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever....

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

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