122 Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

I live neither in the past nor in the future. 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.

There is no beauty in Music itself, the beauty is within the listener.

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the ‘ins’ and the ‘outs’ change places with the speed of mach 3.

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

I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.

Vivaldi didn’t write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.