Quote

Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.

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
Also
Right
Deprive
Foolish
Save
Possibility
Silence
Wrong

More quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Image
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Composers combine notes, that's all.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Composition is frozen improvisation.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Music must be listened to it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
Igor Stravinsky
Image
To continue in one path is to go backward.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
I am an inventor of music.
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
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
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
Image
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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
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
Image
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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