I am an inventor of music.
IGOR STRAVINSKYA cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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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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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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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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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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Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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