We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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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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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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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