I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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 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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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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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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.
IGOR STRAVINSKY