My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
IGOR STRAVINSKYIn order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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