Quotes by Igor Stravinsky

I have learned as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to fonts of wisdom and knowledge.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

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.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

What force is more potent than love?

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

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