Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThe 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.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Music is the coordination between man and time.
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The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.
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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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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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One’s belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one’s conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren’t always right.
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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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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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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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