Revolution means turning the wheel.
IGOR STRAVINSKYThere is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
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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An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.
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Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don’t like, it’s always by Villa Lobos?
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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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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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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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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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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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