Igor Stravinsky Men Quotations

What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

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

Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.

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.

The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

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