My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWhat force is more potent than love?
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Composers combine notes, that’s all.
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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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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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.
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