Conductors careers are made for the most part with Romantic music. Classic music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it. – Igor Stravinsky
It is one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. – Igor Stravinsky
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
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebodys piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading. – Igor Stravinsky
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. – Anne Frank