Igor Stravinsky Quotes

Music is the perfect type of art.

Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.

Music creates order out of chaos.

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

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

Music is math; music is spiritual.

Music is my heart.

Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

Music is the universal language.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.