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.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhy is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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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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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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