Igor Stravinsky Quotes

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Igor Stravinsky

Profession : Composer

Birth : June 17, 1882

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

Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Igor Stravinsky

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

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

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

Igor Stravinsky

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Igor Stravinsky

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

Igor Stravinsky