Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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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What force is more potent than love?
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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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The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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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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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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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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The performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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