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
eye waiting shantaram
All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
haste
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
memories live-by
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
want tricks
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
mean wheels revolution
Revolution means turning the wheel.
art artist pigs
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
long may kindles
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
silence foolish possibility
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
men realizing domain
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
nature grandmother grandpa
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
sin undone forgiven
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
music past today
I live neither in the past nor in the future. 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.
church ornaments able
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.
relationship drama book
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.