Igor Stravinsky Quotes

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• There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Pulse, Beats, Rhythm

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• Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Art, Opposites, Chaos

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• 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

  Meaningful, Freedom, Self

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Thinking, Bars

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• My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Thinking, Scotch, Names

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• Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Ducks, Enough

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• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Jazz And Life, Doe

  In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1

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• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

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  Love, Marriage, Order

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

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  Music Is, Powerless

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• Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Haste

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• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

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  Music, Men, Order

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Art, Creativity

  "The Apollonian Clockwork". Book by Louis Andriessen, 1983.

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• 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

  Pride, Artistic, Talent

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• Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Writing, Vivaldi

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• 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

  Self, Execution, Precision

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

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  Inspiration, House, Architect

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• Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Funny, Music, Witty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Children, Animal, Symphony

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• 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

  Christian, Distance, Church

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• Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Tunes, Tuning, Harps

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• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Ducks, Effort

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Church, Ornaments, Able

  "Media and Popular Music". Book by Peter Mills (p. 1997), May 16, 2012.

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• Composers combine notes, that's all.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Notes, Composer

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.52, Univ of California Press

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

  Igor Stravinsky

  Silence, Foolish, Possibility

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition of tones foreign to it. One must admit that all this is not clear. Ever since it appeared in our vocabulary, the word 'dissonance' has carried with it a certain odor of sinfulness. Let us light our lantern: in textbook language, dissonance is an element of transition, a complex or interval of tones that is not complete in itself and that must be resolved to the ear's satisfaction into a perfect consonance.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Vocabulary, Light, Perfect

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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