There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
IGOR STRAVINSKYTo listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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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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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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 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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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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I am an inventor of music.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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