I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKYSilence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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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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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