My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
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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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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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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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, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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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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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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