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
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.
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.
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.
impulse music-is succession
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
greatness masterpiece
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
music years challenges
The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
years twenties today
One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.
freedom precision constraints
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one
should-have talent born
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.