All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the coordination between man and time.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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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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