My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKYI am an inventor of music.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.
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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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Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.
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Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
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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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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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All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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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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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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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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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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