My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.
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Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.
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We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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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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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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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 knew I had to write a Mass of my own, but a real one.
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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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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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Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.
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Composition is frozen improvisation.
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