Igor Stravinsky Quotes & Quotations
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It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. - Igor Stravinsky
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. - Igor Stravinsky
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. - Igor Stravinsky
I am an inventor of music. - 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
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
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. - Igor Stravinsky
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. - Igor Stravinsky
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. - 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
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. - Igor Stravinsky
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
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. - Igor Stravinsky
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? - Igor Stravinsky
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. - 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
My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. - Igor Stravinsky
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. - Igor Stravinsky
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. - Igor Stravinsky
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. - Igor Stravinsky
I am an inventor of music. - 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
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. - Igor Stravinsky
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. - Igor Stravinsky
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. - 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
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. - Igor Stravinsky
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
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. - Igor Stravinsky
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? - Igor Stravinsky
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. - 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
My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. - Igor Stravinsky