Top 100 Igor Quotes
#1. Suffering through his classes, the young Igor steeped himself in angst. He would later describe his childhood as 'a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
Jonah Lehrer
#3. it seemed to Igor that trouble hit Mr. Lipwig like a big wave hitting a flotilla of ducks. Afterward, there was no wave but there was still a lot of duck. "It
Terry Pratchett
#4. My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
Igor Stravinsky
#5. The Igor position on prayer is that it is nothing more than hope with a beat to it.
Terry Pratchett
#6. Biers was where the undead drank. And when Igor the barman was asked for a Bloody Mary, he didn't mix a metaphor.
Terry Pratchett
#7. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!
Terry Pratchett
#8. You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky ... to Igor Stravinsky!
Victor Borge
#9. And where jazz music was concerned, there was a saying, Segodnia on igraet dzhaz, a zavtra rodinu prodast: Today you play jazz, tomorrow you betray the motherland." Igor,
Michael Segell
#10. My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become parents like their parents. They do not desire anything more than everything they have known. OK, but this is not for me, and it will not be for Little Igor.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#11. Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".
Russell Brand
#12. 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.
Aaron Zigman
#13. Igor, one night drunk in a Manila strip club does not make you a Chippendale. It just makes you a little sad,
Anonymous
#14. Could be worse ... could be raining."
- Igor
Mel Brooks
#15. I'm an Igor, thur. We don't athk quethtionth."
"Really? Why not?"
"I don't know, thur. I didn't athk.
Terry Pratchett
#16. 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.
Mads Mikkelsen
#17. The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Don't share your secrets if you preface them with 'just don't tell anybody.
Igor Babailov
#20. It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.
Igor Sikorsky
#21. Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego ...
Igor Babailov
#23. The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
Igor Sikorsky
#24. Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Igor Stravinsky
#25. Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.
Igor Babailov
#26. It's Okay," he answered and smiled ironically. "I should be grateful to the knife that's curing me for being so sharp.
Igor Eliseev
#27. It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.
Igor Babailov
#28. 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
#30. Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
Igor Stravinsky
#31. At times it is so enjoyable to mire your neighbor into the filth you already got stuck in long ago!
Igor Eliseev
#32. The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
Igor Ivanov
#33. We are determined to improve the economic environment by getting foreign investors in and by cutting red tape.
Igor Luksic
#34. It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one's faith, for the latter, one should never have any.
Igor Eliseev
#35. Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
Igor Stravinsky
#37. Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
Igor Stravinsky
#38. Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.
Igor Youskevitch
#39. I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
Igor Stravinsky
#40. Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.
Igor Babailov
#41. The profound meaning of music's essential aim ... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
Igor Stravinsky
#42. If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.
Igor Sikorsky
#43. 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
#44. The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.
Igor Sikorsky
#45. Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.
Igor Eliseev
#46. You have always understood and accepted my most genuine, most intimate impulses and responded to them with surprising accuracy. I wish all people turned into such mirrors for each other.
Igor Eliseev
#47. If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.
Igor Sikorsky
#48. Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
Igor Luksic
#49. Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
#50. The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.
Igor Babailov
#51. It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.
Igor Eliseev
#52. Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
#53. If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.
Igor Levit
#54. The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
Igor Stravinsky
#55. Is it so hard to offer your help and sympathy to somebody in grief? It takes a little to make one step, but, in an inexplicable manner, it stretches into thousands of kilometers. All of us are full of empathy and consolation but always prefer to express it from a distance.
Igor Eliseev
#56. When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important.
Igor Levit
#57. One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Igor Stravinsky
#58. To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
Igor Stravinsky
#60. A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
Igor Stravinsky
#61. Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music.
[Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990]
Igor Stravinsky
#62. A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
Igor Stravinsky
#63. When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.
Igor Levit
#64. I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.
Igor Levit
#65. Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
Igor Stravinsky
#66. I clearly saw us from outside, like in a picture: we are not people, we are a road sign warning: "Stop and thank luck because such fate didn't befall you as befell us, and only then keep going your way".
Igor Eliseev
#67. Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
Igor Stravinsky
#68. Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
Igor Stravinsky
#69. Why is Mediocrity now good enough?
When did crap become the new black?
Igor Goldkind
#71. It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
Igor Stravinsky
#72. Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.
Igor Levit
#73. It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot,
Igor Sikorsky
#74. All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
Igor Stravinsky
#75. I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Igor Stravinsky
#76. The most unique thing about music making is sharing.
Igor Levit
#77. One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.
Igor Stravinsky
#78. Maybe the consequences of someone's unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason?
Igor Eliseev
#79. Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort ... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.
Igor Babailov
#82. According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway.
Igor Sikorsky
#83. The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Igor Sikorsky
#84. Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
Igor Luksic
#85. There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
Igor Stravinsky
#87. Art is an international language, understood by all.
Igor Babailov
#88. It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism
Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete
opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.
Igor Stravinsky
#89. I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.
Igor Levit
#90. At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
Igor Sikorsky
#92. They are just a strange whim, kink of nature, deviation that doesn't seem to exist but is encountered every day.
Igor Eliseev
#93. It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
Igor Stravinsky
#94. 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
#95. Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle.
Igor Sikorsky
#96. I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
Igor Luksic
#97. We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.
Igor Markevitch
#100. The purpose of Art Education is to teach you how to draw.
Igor Babailov
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