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

More quotes by Igor Stravinsky

Image
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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
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
Image
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
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
Image
Composition is frozen improvisation.
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
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more 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
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
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
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
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
Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos he wrote one concerto 400 times.
Igor Stravinsky
Image
Music is...the coordination between man and time.
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 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