My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKYMusic is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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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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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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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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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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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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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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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 true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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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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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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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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