The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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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Good composers don’t borrow, they 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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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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 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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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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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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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