A collection of quotes and sayings by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky on execution, love, music, life, precision, self, genius, opportunity, God, wisdom, art and artists.
39 Insightful Quotes By Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky On Love, Music, Life Etc
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a distinguished Russian conductor, composer and pianist. He is counted amongst one of the most influential and great composers of the 20th century. He was renowned for his compositions which had a stylistic diversity. He was born to a musician father, and pursued law from ‘University of Petersburg’. However, he never became a lawyer and opted to study music under distinguished composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov instead. He shot to international fame with a ballet called ‘The Firebird’ at the age of 28. We have compiled some famous quotable quotes and sayings by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky which have been excerpted from his work, music, thoughts and life. Read through the corpus of notable quotes and thoughts by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky on children, great, truth, tomorrow, effort, listen, love, music, forgiveness, force, respect, beginning, undone, prestige, time, romantic and more.
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.
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
Igor Stravinsky
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.
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
Igor Stravinsky
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.
, but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. )
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