Igor Stravinsky Is Quotations

The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.