Best Quotes by Igor Stravinsky (Top 10)
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
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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
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Igor Stravinsky
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
Igor Stravinsky
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
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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
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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
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
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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
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
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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
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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
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinsky
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky
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I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
Igor Stravinsky
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
Igor Stravinsky
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Igor Stravinsky
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What force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
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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
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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.
Igor Stravinsky