122 Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.