The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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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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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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