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
pieces villa
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
meaningful freedom self
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
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.
funny music witty
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
tuning tunes harps
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
music ducks effort
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
improvisation composition selective
Composition is selective improvisation.
starting-over becoming principles
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
music past today
I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
sin undone forgiven
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
want tricks
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
pieces music-is comment
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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.