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Igor Stravinsky quotes

Russian Composer June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky quote: "Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the..."
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky quote: "In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what..."
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky quote: "What force is more potent than love?"
What force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky
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. 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. Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky quote: "I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have..."
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky quote: "Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration,..."
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. 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. Igor Stravinsky
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. Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky quote: "My music is best understood by children and animals."
My music is best understood by children and animals. Igor Stravinsky
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. Igor Stravinsky
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. Igor Stravinsky
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. Igor Stravinsky
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky

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