I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. Igor Stravinsky
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. Igor Stravinsky
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell. Igor Stravinsky
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. Igor Stravinsky
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church’s greatest ornament. Igor Stravinsky
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. Igor Stravinsky