I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
IGOR STRAVINSKYArt is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.
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I knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Hurry? I have no time to hurry.
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I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received.
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