Stravinsky Quotes

“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
― Igor Stravinsky

“In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting.”
― Craig Raine, Heartbreak

“This is the history of un-art—the cultural productions that are not intended to convey beauty, not organized around the notion of singular genius expres- sion, not designed to sooth audiences and to confirm the order of things. Un-art comes to unmake worlds.”
― J. Jack Halberstam, Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire