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 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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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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.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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I am an inventor of music.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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