To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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I am an inventor of music.
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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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