The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
Igor StravinskyI cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
Igor StravinskyWhat I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
Igor Stravinsky