My music is best understood by children and animals.

—Igor Stravinsky

About Igor Stravinsky

Portrait of Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June [O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist...

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

—Igor Stravinsky

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

—Igor Stravinsky

What force is more potent than love?

—Igor Stravinsky

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration.

—Igor Stravinsky

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

—George Santayana

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

—George Eliot

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

—George Eliot

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

—George Bernard Shaw

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