My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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I am an inventor of music.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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