Quote

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Igor Stravinsky

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Igor Stravinsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1882
Born: June 17
Died: 1971
Died: April 6
Composer
Conductor
Musician
Pianist
omniorca
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Stravinsky
Igor Strawinski
Igor Strawinsky
Igor Stravinskii
Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky
Jgor Strawinsky
Igor Strawinskij
Igor Stravinski
Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky
I. Strawinsky
Understood
Felt
Music
Thinking
Life
Bars
Havens
Haven

More quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Image
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
To continue in one path is to go backward.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
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.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Revolution means turning the wheel.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
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.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
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
Image
Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
An audience is an abstraction it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
Igor Stravinsky