My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKYAn artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. 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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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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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What force is more potent than love?
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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 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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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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