I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
Igor StravinskyOld age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
Igor StravinskyIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Igor StravinskyFilm music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Igor StravinskyThe past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.
Igor Stravinsky