Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Igor StravinskyMusic is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
Igor StravinskyThe trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor StravinskyWhen I discovered that I had been made custodian of this gift, in my earliest childhood, I pledged myself to God to be worthy of it, but I have received uncovenanted mercies all my life. The custodian has too often kept faith on his all-too-worldly terms.
Igor Stravinsky