My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
IGOR STRAVINSKYWe have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
More Igor Stravinsky Quotes
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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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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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What force is more potent than love?
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The profound meaning of music’s essential aim, is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.
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It’s one of nature’s way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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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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Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.
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Revolution means turning the wheel.
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