I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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