To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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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.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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.
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What force is more potent than love?
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