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
real thinking awareness
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
thinking scotch-whisky names
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
music thinking bars
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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.
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.