Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
IGOR STRAVINSKYMy God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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 can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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