Igor Stravinsky Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Igor Stravinsky Quotes and Sayings


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    A good composer does not imitate; he steals. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    I am an inventor of music. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    My music is best understood by children and animals. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
  • 19
    Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    What force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF
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    Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos? Igor Stravinsky | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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