What force is more potent than love?
IGOR STRAVINSKYIt’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.
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