I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

IGOR STRAVINSKY

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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

Igor Stravinsky

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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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Day Small
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
My music is best understood by children and animals.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Best
I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!

IGOR STRAVINSKY

I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Hurry? I have no time to hurry.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Hurry
Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
IGOR STRAVINSKY
The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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Commission Oneself Trick
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Aware Willing
An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.
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Abstraction Audience
Composition is frozen improvisation.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Composition is frozen improvisation.
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Describe Improvisation
We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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What force is more potent than love?
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Composition is selective improvisation.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Composition is selective improvisation.
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Improve Selective
The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

Distance
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Oneself Truffle
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

IGOR STRAVINSKY

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
IGOR STRAVINSKY

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