Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Russian Composer
These Igor Stravinsky quotes and sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do. - Igor Stravinsky
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. - Igor Stravinsky
It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. - Igor Stravinsky
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. - Igor Stravinsky
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. - Igor Stravinsky
I am an inventor of music. - Igor Stravinsky
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. - Igor Stravinsky
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. - Igor Stravinsky