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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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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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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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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.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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