Igor Stravinsky Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

• 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.

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

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Thinking, Bars

• 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.

• 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

  Music, Appreciation, Humorous

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

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

  Igor Stravinsky

  Funny, Music, Witty

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

• 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

• 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, Men, Order

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

• I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Past, Today

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

• 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

  Inspirational, Music, Opportunity

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

• The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Years, Challenges

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.57, Univ of California Press

• 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

  Music, Moving, Order

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