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 STRAVINSKYMy God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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What force is more potent than love?
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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I am an inventor of music.
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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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