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
art judging criticism
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
inspirational life wisdom
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.
should-have taste pardon
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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.
ducks enough
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
stealing composer
Good composers don't borrow, they steal
pulse beats rhythm
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
sound forget forget-it
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
real writing mass
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
real artist giving
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators....
art reality self
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
pieces music-is comment
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
music-is powerless
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
art art-is controlled
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.