My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKYOne’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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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What force is more potent than love?
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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