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
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.
inspiration men profound
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
dream inspiration artist
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.
work food inspiration
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
inspirational music opportunity
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.
inspiration house architect
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
bring cannot present serve truth
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.
building church knew music praises
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.
animal animals anymore cross dare die family hardly idiot known member plague royal stared street wherever zoo
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
closer distant generation ways
It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
animal animals anymore cross dare die family hardly idiot known member plague royal stared street wherever zoo
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
action appetite beginning brings work
Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning
bar felt music understood
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I've felt it
elements chance fluctuation
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.