I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Igor StravinskyJust as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor StravinskyMusic is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
Igor StravinskyIt is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
Igor Stravinsky