The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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What force is more potent than love?
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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 must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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