"I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it." ― Igor Stravinsky Topic(s): Life More From Igor Stravinsky "Conductors’ careers are made for the most part with ‘Romantic’ music. ‘Classic’ music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it." "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." "Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading." More In Life "The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life."― Peace Pilgrim "Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."― Buddha "The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."― Corrie Ten Boom