Stravinsky Quotes

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

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie industry.

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi.

Composers can do things that weren't allowed in the 17th century. Until we had composers like Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff to break the rules.

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

I had no idea Stravinsky disliked Debussy so much as this.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

If we think today the way TV is ordering us to think, we think of Einstein as someone modern. Stravinsky is modern music, but it came at the time of Birth of a Nation, which is an old movie.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.

In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting.

Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration