“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 cared about, the originals cried “sacrilege”: “The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone.” To them all my answer was and is the same: You “respect,” but I love.”
“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
“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 ...”
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