It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.
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I never am sea sick, never. I am sea drunk!
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Composition is selective improvisation.
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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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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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To continue in one path is to go backward.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
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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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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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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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