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What force is more potent than love?
— Igor Stravinsky
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
— Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
— Igor Stravinsky
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
— Igor Stravinsky
Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
— Igor Stravinsky
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Good composers don't borrow, they steal
— Igor Stravinsky
Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
— Igor Stravinsky
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
— Igor Stravinsky
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
— Igor Stravinsky
My music is best understood by children and animals.
— Igor Stravinsky
Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.
— Igor Stravinsky
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
— Igor Stravinsky
He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov) — Igor Stravinsky
I am an inventor of music.
— Igor Stravinsky
Composition is selective improvisation.
— Igor Stravinsky
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
— Igor Stravinsky
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
— Igor Stravinsky
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
— 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
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
— Igor Stravinsky
I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
— 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
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
— 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
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
— Igor Stravinsky
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
— Igor Stravinsky
I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine.
— Patricia Highsmith
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
— Igor Stravinsky
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
— Igor Stravinsky
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
— Igor Stravinsky
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
— 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
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
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
— Igor Stravinsky
An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
— Igor Stravinsky
The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
— Igor Stravinsky
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
— Igor Stravinsky
The profound meaning of music's essential aim ... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
— Igor Stravinsky
We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.
— Woody Herman
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
— Igor Stravinsky
We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
— Igor Stravinsky
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
— Igor Stravinsky
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
— Igor Stravinsky
That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.
— Eugene Ormandy
I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
— Igor Stravinsky
To continue in one path is to go backward.
— Igor Stravinsky
New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.
— Duke Ellington
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
— Leo Kottke
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
Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music.[Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990] — Igor Stravinsky
Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
— Igor Stravinsky
My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.
— Igor Stravinsky
I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
— Igor Stravinsky
You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
— George Bernard Shaw
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
— Igor Stravinsky
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
— Igor Stravinsky
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
— Igor Stravinsky
Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
— Igor Stravinsky
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
— Igor Stravinsky
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
— Igor Stravinsky
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
— Igor Stravinsky
The perfection of performance has escalated to the extent that the music itself is threatened with relegation.
— Igor Stravinsky
Composition is frozen improvisation.
— 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 had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.
— Ernest Newman
Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
— Igor Stravinsky
Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.
— Igor Stravinsky
Revolution means turning the wheel.
— Igor Stravinsky
