“As for myself, I need music for hygienic purposes, for the health of my soul. Without music in its best sense there is chaos. For my part, music is a force which gives reason to things, a force which creates organization, which attunes things. Music probably attended the creation of the universe.”
“What force is more potent than love?”
Igor Stravinsky
“For I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc. Expressio...”
Igor Stravinsky
“I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing “simple” music, blamed for deserting “modernism,” accused of renouncing my “true Russian heritage.” People who had never heard of, or care...”
Igor Stravinsky
“My music is best understood by children and animals.”
Igor Stravinsky
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”
Igor Stravinsky