Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
IGOR STRAVINSKYRevolution means turning the wheel.
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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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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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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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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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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