Igor StravinskyThinkers

Antonio Vivaldi is an artist who didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

The Artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

An Audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Change is necessary. To continue in one path is to go backward.

Composition is selective improvisation.

Composition is frozen improvisation.

Constraint's arbitrariness serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Constraint is liberating. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one

The Critic is small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if having stepped out of a painting by Goya.

The Harp is an instrument that a harpist spends ninety percent of their life tuning and ten per cent playing out of tune.