My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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What force is more potent than love?
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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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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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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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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