Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinskywas a Russian-French-American composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth17 June 1882
CityLomonosov, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Igor Stravinsky quotes about
long may kindles
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
dream criticism goya
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
mean wheels revolution
Revolution means turning the wheel.
self execution precision
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
long age pressure
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
frozen improvisation composition
Composition is frozen improvisation.
inventor
I am an inventor of music.
impulse music-is succession
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
stealing composer
Good composers don't borrow, they steal
ducks enough
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
real writing mass
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
pulse beats rhythm
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
dream inspiration artist
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.
inspirational life wisdom
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.