Quote

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

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
Children
Animals
Things
Understood
Life
Joy
Animal
Best
Music
Look
Looks
Symphony

More quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Image
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
To continue in one path is to go backward.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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 is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Composition is frozen improvisation.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky