To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy music is best understood by children and animals.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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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.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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What force is more potent than love?
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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