"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 "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." "The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead." "Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?" More In Life "The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival."― Aristotle "I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk."― Paulo Coelho "A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner."― Francis Bacon