Russian - Composer | June 17, 1882 - April 6, 1971
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
LoveCreateMoreOrderForceMust
My music is best understood by children and animals.
MusicChildrenBestAnimals
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.
MusicGodBuildingBetterChurch
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
MusicTimeManPurposeOrderThings
What force is more potent than love?
LoveMoreForceThanPotent
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.
LifeGodTimeServiceTalentSmall
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
WorkTimeWillRealAlwaysAware
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.
MusicEndingMoreNeverReasonThan
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
OutPlayingPercentTuneSpend
Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
MusicRomanticRememberClassicHim
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
FamilyI AmAnimalDieIdiotStreet
I am an inventor of music.
MusicI AmInventorAm
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