Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Wisdom
Throughout
Knowledge
Pursuit
Inspirational
False
Pursuits
Life
Mistakes
Chiefly
Failure
Assumptions
Creativity
Exposure
Learned
Composer
Mistake
Assumption
More quotes by Igor Stravinsky
Composition is frozen improvisation.
Igor Stravinsky
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
Igor Stravinsky
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
Igor Stravinsky
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
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
Igor Stravinsky
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa Lobos?
Igor Stravinsky
I am an inventor of music.
Igor Stravinsky
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
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
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
Igor Stravinsky
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
Igor Stravinsky
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
Igor Stravinsky
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
Igor Stravinsky
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
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
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
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
Igor Stravinsky
I never understood the need for a live audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
Igor Stravinsky
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
Igor Stravinsky
Revolution means turning the wheel.
Igor Stravinsky
