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
pride talent artistic
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
pieces villa
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
light vocabulary perfect
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition of tones foreign to it. One must admit that all this is not clear. Ever since it appeared in our vocabulary, the word 'dissonance' has carried with it a certain odor of sinfulness. Let us light our lantern: in textbook language, dissonance is an element of transition, a complex or interval of tones that is not complete in itself and that must be resolved to the ear's satisfaction into a perfect consonance.
order flow structure
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
music jazz-and-life doe
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
simple artist people
I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love.
music thinking bars
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
artist pigs noses
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
closer distant generation ways
It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
art art-is controlled
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
art judging criticism
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
art artist pigs
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
art reality self
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
art philosophy hell
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.